Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:32:32 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>, "Sam Leffler \(FreeBSD Project\)" <sam@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: (forw) Re: USB4BSD - release candidate 2 - coming to FreeBSD this week. Message-ID: <200810180932.33848.hselasky@c2i.net> In-Reply-To: <e71790db0810170534j7ed1987fsccf288a788a9159b@mail.gmail.com> References: <20081015173319.GB46393@elvis.mu.org> <200810152124.12637.hselasky@c2i.net> <e71790db0810170534j7ed1987fsccf288a788a9159b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday 17 October 2008, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> wrote: > >> 6. Many files lack a copyright/license (e.g. modules/*). > > > > It is BSD licensed like the rest of the code. > > International law recognizes implicit copyright, not implicit > licensing. If you are the author then you are the implicit copyright > holder, unless you have signed a contract assigning the copyright to > someone else. So you are the only person legally allowed to add a > license statement to that code. Somebody else can do it, of course, > but only with your written permission; otherwise it would be a crime. Yes, but the files under modules/* are Makefile. Do Makefiles need a license. Else I completely agree with you. --HPS
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