From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 20 15:50:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (gw.Awfulhak.org [217.204.245.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BAEC37B409 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 15:50:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [fec0::1:12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f7KMo0v14497; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 23:50:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7KMnjU93566; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 23:49:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200108202249.f7KMnjU93566@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@freebsd-services.com Subject: Re: Copyright Contradiction in libalias In-Reply-To: Message from "Crist J. Clark" of "Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:14:38 PDT." <20010820141438.K313@blossom.cjclark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 23:49:44 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > I was doing some things in libalias when something caught my eye, > > $ cat alias.c > /* -*- mode: c; tab-width: 8; c-basic-indent: 4; -*- */ > > /*- > * Copyright (c) 2001 Charles Mott > * All rights reserved. > * > [snip usual BSD licence legalese and comments about the code.] > > This software is placed into the public domain with no restrictions > on its distribution. > > This is contained in several files in there. > > This is a contradiction. Public domain software can't also have > copyright notices and a bunch of license disclaimers. The BSD-style > copyright header was added back in June. You can't just take something > in the public domain and slap a copyright on it, but IANAL. > > Still, the comments in the code as written are self-contradictory. It > can't have a BSD-license _and_ be public domain. And since again > IANAL, I am not saying which needs to stay or which needs to go, but > one of those statements does. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu -- Brian http://www.freebsd-services.com/ Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message