Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:49:56 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Nell Weems <nellweems@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: advertising clause in license Message-ID: <20041022204956.GA11029@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20041022203551.85768.qmail@web54101.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041022203551.85768.qmail@web54101.mail.yahoo.com>
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--OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 01:35:51PM -0700, Nell Weems wrote: > Hello all, >=20 > after typing: > fgrep -r "All advertising materials" /usr/src/sys > it seems like there are still many files which=20 > contain the advertising clause. has there been any=20 > attempts to contact the copyright authors of these=20 > files and see if it can be removed? >=20 > not too much of a deal, i was just wondering. No concerted efforts that I know of, but note that most of those copyright holders are the UCB regents, so the copyright notice is overridden by the amendment in /COPYRIGHT. There is some ongoing work to regularize licenses in the source tree though (mostly worked on by imp@). Kris --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFBeXJ0Wry0BWjoQKURAlvPAKC/UznSbyQZl4YS2cVEnjot1EjtPQCYrGPg As2WAytYGwaQmTUP89p/Pg== =oSFT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG--
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