Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 11:04:53 -0400 (EDT) From: arromdee@inetnow.net To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uudx Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980612110150.5802A-100000@www.inetnow.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980612021908.11999J-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Doug White wrote: > > How do I tell what the license is on a FreeBSD source file? > Look at the top -- the copyright is in every file. Most are covered under > the BSD license. The following is the top of the file uudx.c. /* * uudx - extractor from uuencoded files * * Written by AssistantIO */ #define COMMAND "uudx" #define VERSION "ver. 2.99" ... I should point out that this program is not itself on www.freebsd.org. What is on the freeBSD site is a makefile pointing to ftp://ftp.ae.keio.ac.jp/pub/msdos/archivers/uu/ . There is also a maintainer address of pcs51674@asciinet.or.jp in the makefile, and pcs28337@asciinet.or.jp in the documentation; both of these bounce. > > I am specifically interested in uudx, since I'm trying to find a > > uudecode program which doesn't contain the 'advertising clause' (which > > says that if a feature is advertised you have to include a credit in the > > advertising), so I can cut the routine out and use it in another > > program. (As a programmer, I have little influence on how the marketing > > division advertises anything.) > Both BSD and GNU have that, and those are the predominant copyrights. > It's only one line, and you can make it 6 point on the legalese page. :) And if the program is advertised on a video? Or in a magazine? (I should clarify that the program itself will not be distributed; it will only be used, since it's run as CGI scripts over the web, so the GNU license is actually better, as its restrictions only apply when you distribute.) -- Ken Arromdee |They said it was *daft* to build a space arromdee@inetnow.net |station in a swamp, but I showed them! It karromde@nyx.nyx.net |sank into the swamp. So I built a second http://www.inetnow.net/~arromdee|space station. That sank into the swamp too. --------------------------------+My third space station sank into the swamp. So I built a fourth one. That fell into a time warp and _then_ sank into the swamp. But the fifth one... stayed up! --Monty Python/Babylon 5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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