Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 21:11:40 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: Ian Pulsford <ianjp@optusnet.com.au>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Abuses of the BSD license? Message-ID: <3CB1187C.3FA3D416@mindspring.com> 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> <fyy9fyzy38.9fy@localhost.localdomain>
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"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
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