From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Oct 2 15:37:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (winston.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A769E37B502; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 15:37:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e92MatU72334; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 15:36:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com) To: Terry Lambert Cc: bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), marko@FreeBSD.ORG (Mark Ovens), will@physics.purdue.edu (Will Andrews), advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stolen script? In-Reply-To: Message from Terry Lambert of "Mon, 02 Oct 2000 21:42:44 -0000." <200010022142.OAA11519@usr05.primenet.com> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 15:36:55 -0700 Message-ID: <72330.970526215@winston.osd.bsdi.com> From: Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > According to the IBM lawyers who did due dilligence on all > of FreeBSD, prior to the Whistle acquisition, the src/COPYRIGHT > is all that's necessary and sufficient. [I should know better than to reply to a Lambert posting, but what the hell, it's Monday :) ] I would have thought IBM employed more expensive lawyers than this. There are portions of /usr/src clearly covered under the GPL, yet your lawyers claimed that src/COPYRIGHT still covered them? I have to believe that you're misrepresenting what they said since I can't imagine IBM going this far wrong. Similarly, there are other bits of src/ which are covered under the beerware license, private licenses, various permutations on the berkeley license and any number of things not covered by src/COPYRIGHT. That would imply a rule of "under src/COPYRIGHT unless I say otherwise" and that's not a rule which I could see any lawyer supporting since it would mean that any portion of src which was taken away would suddenly be license-less, and expecting an "all or nothing" approach to FreeBSD's /usr/src would be unrealistic at best. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message