From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 7 21:12:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D3A137B41A for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 21:12:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0444.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.43.189] helo=mindspring.com) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16uQVi-0003ck-00; Sun, 07 Apr 2002 21:12:06 -0700 Message-ID: <3CB1187C.3FA3D416@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 21:11:40 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: Ian Pulsford , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Abuses of the BSD license? References: <200204051922.06556@silver.dt1.binity.net> <3CAE7037.801FB15F@optusnet.com.au> <3CAEA028.186ED53E@optusnet.com.au> <3CAED90B.F4B7905@mindspring.com> <3CAEFFAA.91525BB3@optusnet.com.au> <3CAF74A9.135485DA@mindspring.com> <3CAFA609.32DD89E4@optusnet.com.au> <3CB01C27.CA0B2600@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > Also, I think that a sublicense is not necessary since the whole world > has already been licensed to use the code of interest. A license is > only needed for the new part of the derivative. (17USC103: "The > copyright in a compilation or derivative work extends only to the > material contributed by the author of such work, ...".) The sublicense is required, since it is the only license on the derivative works, unless the original license tries to propagate to new code(the legality of which has yet to be tested by a court). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message