From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Oct 2 15:41:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C96B37B503 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 15:41:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish ([62.253.84.176]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20001002224106.NAF13676.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@parish>; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 23:41:06 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e92Mevm00903; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 23:40:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 23:40:55 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Terry Lambert Cc: Jordan Hubbard , Alfred Perlstein , Will Andrews , advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stolen script? Message-ID: <20001002234055.B252@parish> References: <20001002180608.A252@parish> <200010022133.OAA11355@usr05.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200010022133.OAA11355@usr05.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:33:21PM +0000 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:33:21PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 08:25:44PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > > Like I said in the original email, I'm pretty sure src/COPYRIGHT > > > > covers all files originally imported into the repository. > > > > > > I'm afraid that such "blanket coverage" would not be even remotely > > > legal, according to the Bern convention or otherwise. All files must > > > bear the appropriate rcopyright text, especially given the fact that > > > we mix and match copyrights under /usr/src - /usr/src/gnu is obviously > > > not covered by src/COPYRIGHT for example. > > > > > > > Ah thank you. That was what I was wondering. I would imagine that a single, > > blanket coverage, copyright file would only be valid/legal if all the files > > it covered were *only* available in a single tarball (and then the > > copyright would have to be on the tarball "and all files contained > > therein". > > That's true. And that's what FreeBSD has. > But is it? You can trawl the CVS repository and download a single file. Starting at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ and moving down I can see no mention of copyright anywhere (even the web pages themselves do not have copyright notice on them). > Anyone who takes the file out of context of the aggregation is > required to take the agregation copyright/license with it, if > the file has no other lixense permitting its use, otherwise. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message