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Date:      Mon, 2 Oct 2000 18:06:08 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
To:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: stolen script?
Message-ID:  <20001002180608.A252@parish>
In-Reply-To: <55614.970457144@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com on Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 08:25:44PM -0700
References:  <bright@wintelcom.net> <55614.970457144@winston.osd.bsdi.com>

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On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 08:25:44PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> > 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.
> 

Ah thank you. That was what I was wondering. I would imagine that a single,
blanket coverage, copyright file would only be valid/legal if all the files
it covered were *only* available in a single tarball (and then the
copyright would have to be on the tarball "and all files contained
therein".

> - Jordan
> 
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