From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Oct 1 15:50:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from puck.firepipe.net (mcut-b-167.resnet.purdue.edu [128.211.209.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB94D37B503 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 15:50:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by puck.firepipe.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BDECC1920; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 17:50:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 17:50:09 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stolen script? Message-ID: <20001001175009.C613@puck.firepipe.net> Reply-To: Will Andrews Mail-Followup-To: Will Andrews , Alfred Perlstein , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20001001105526.E27736@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001001105526.E27736@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 10:55:26AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 10:55:26AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I don't want anyone to flame the guy to death, I just want to know > if this is ok or not? My understanding is that it's ok to GPL > our code so long as the original copyright remains intact. > > So two questions: > So can he GPL it? > Must he add the src/COPYRIGHT? He is violating the original copyright and committing a serious crime (copyright infringment). Tell him he better put the copyright back in, or something furious will happen. -- Will Andrews - Physics Computer Network wench The Universal Answer to All Problems - "It has something to do with physics." -- Comic on door of Room 240, Physics Building, Purdue University To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message