Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:14:41 +1000 From: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@freebsd-services.com Subject: Re: Copyright Contradiction in libalias Message-ID: <20010821091441.F21855@zeus.theinternet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200108202249.f7KMnjU93566@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from Brian Somers on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:49:44PM %2B0100 References: <cristjc@earthlink.net> <200108202249.f7KMnjU93566@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
+-------[ Brian Somers ]---------------------- | This is my fault. Charles gave me permission to change these files | to a BSD license a while ago. It looks like I got it wrong :-/ | | I'll fix it now. Well since copyright was abandoned (being placed into the public domain is abandonment of copyright), the changed file can be copyrighted by whomever makes changes. The new file is then covered by the license from that point forward. If Charles was the copyright holder and licensed them to you under a BSD license then the license still holds (but, not if they were already Public Domain, since you don't need permission if they're abandoned, and Charles no longer holds copyright anyway). This is true even if they are subsequently released to the public domain, although Charles would probably have no recourse if you broke your license with him d8) Charles probably didn't want to really put his code into the public domain, and as it seems Charles has licensed the code under a BSDL to us, the license in the file is correct. Check with Charles to see if he really wants to abandon copyright claims to his code, or whether he was really implying some really liberal open source license. -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| | Andrew Milton The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | | ACN: 082 081 472 ABN: 83 082 081 472 | M:+61 416 022 411 | Carpe Daemon PO Box 837 Indooroopilly QLD 4068 |akm@theinternet.com.au| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010821091441.F21855>