Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 21:17:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard) Cc: bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), marko@FreeBSD.ORG (Mark Ovens), will@physics.purdue.edu (Will Andrews), advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stolen script? Message-ID: <200010022117.OAA10930@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <55614.970457144@winston.osd.bsdi.com> from "Jordan Hubbard" at Oct 01, 2000 08:25:44 PM
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> > 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. So I guess you are saying no one can use this file, until there is a license attached to it which grants them the right to use it? Remember also, under Berne, no Copyright notice is required, as was historically required in the U.S. prior to Berne; this is the infamouse "Berne Implied Copyright Clause" that many people objected to, since it could drag things out of the public domain, should someone modify/improve them after the date into which it went into effect. 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
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