From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 9 14:53:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12767 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 14:53:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dns1.tc.net (dns1.tc.net [208.205.78.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA12743 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 14:53:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arromdee@inetnow.net) Received: from [10.16.190.4] by dns1.tc.net for id RAA07671; Tue Jun 9 17:53:01 1998 Received: from notdefault.tc.net (notdefault.tc.net [10.16.190.51]) by tc.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA18475 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 17:53:00 -0400 Message-ID: <357DADC0.2EF5@inetnow.net> Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 17:48:48 -0400 Organization: None. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: uudx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Ken Arromdee Reply-to: arromdee@inetnow.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How do I tell what the license is on a FreeBSD source file? I am specifically interested in uudx, since I'm trying to find a uudecode program which doesn't contain the 'advertising clause' (which says that if a feature is advertised you have to include a credit in the advertising), so I can cut the routine out and use it in another program. (As a programmer, I have little influence on how the marketing division advertises anything.) The routine itself is only a few lines, but I've looked at it enough times that I'd be hard pressed to write one of my own which doesn't include a few lines of BSD-copyrighted code. There is a license on www.freebsd.org which contains the 'advertising clause', but it's not clear which files the license applies to (it clearly can't apply to _all_ files, and in any case the source for uudx is not located on www.freebsd.org). uudx itself contains no copyright notice, and I can't read the documentation because it's in Japanese. Email to the listed author (pcs28337@asciinet.or.jp) bounces. Does uudx include the 'advertising clause'? If not, exactly what sort of copyright is it under? If so, is there any way I can get a uudecode routine which doesn't include it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message