Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 02:13:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: marko@freebsd.org (Mark Ovens) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), will@physics.purdue.edu (Will Andrews), advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stolen script? Message-ID: <200010030213.TAA00999@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20001002234055.B252@parish> from "Mark Ovens" at Oct 02, 2000 11:40:55 PM
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> 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). This no more grants you rights to the code than your ability to shoplift a pair of pants grants you rights to the pants; just because something is possible, that doesn't make it legal. The _only_ thing that grants you rights to the code is a license from the copyright holder or an assignment of the copyright. 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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