Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 23:40:55 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stolen script? Message-ID: <20001002234055.B252@parish> In-Reply-To: <200010022133.OAA11355@usr05.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:33:21PM %2B0000 References: <20001002180608.A252@parish> <200010022133.OAA11355@usr05.primenet.com>
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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
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