Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 19:50:23 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Joseph A. Mallett" <jmallett@xMach.org>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: "Opposing" the "competition" (was: FreeBSD spokesman (was: So what happens to FreeBSD now?)) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010705194903.045d4910@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.33.0107052126420.1166-100000@Aphex.NewGold.NET> References: <15173.2796.630368.467005@guru.mired.org>
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At 07:27 PM 7/5/2001, Joseph A. Mallett wrote: >I'm no lawyer, I don't even play one on TV, but as far as I know, you >can't say "This is public domain" and then place a restriction like "not >for commercial use" on it, without incorporating it into a non pd work, >with a license over the entire derived work which prohibits such. You're correct. What's unclear, though, is which of the two contradictory statements is legally binding. Different judges might rule differently on this. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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