Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 21:33:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: marko@FreeBSD.ORG (Mark Ovens) Cc: 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: <200010022133.OAA11355@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20001002180608.A252@parish> from "Mark Ovens" at Oct 02, 2000 06:06:08 PM
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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". That's true. And that's what FreeBSD has. Anyone who takes the file out of context of the aggregation is required to take the agregation copyright/license with it, if the file has no other lixense permitting its use, otherwise. 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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