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Date:      Mon, 08 Apr 2002 15:14:57 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
Cc:        Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Abuses of the BSD license?
Message-ID:  <3CB21661.8EA5F5F4@mindspring.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10204080430170.33374-100000@moo.sysabend.org> <3CB181D8.AD797C8A@mindspring.com> <20020408150638.I85215@lpt.ens.fr>

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Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> Terry Lambert said on Apr  8, 2002 at 04:41:12:
> > Jamie Bowden wrote:
> > > :USL recognized this in their license.  If you have access to a
> > > :SVR4 derived machine that was shipped after the USL vs. UCB
> > > :settlement, look at the license on the header files.

[ ... ]

> I took a look at curses.h on a HP-UX machine.
> It contains the Berkeley copyright notice, but no BSD licence --
> the "list of conditions" and "disclaimer" are missing.

[ ... ]

> /*
>  * Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1988
>  * The Regents of the University of California.  All Rights Reserved.
>  * Portions of this document are derived from software developed by the
>  * University of California, Berkeley, and its contributors.
>  */

This is probably permissable, because of the "All rights Reserved":
it grants you no rights to the code.  The rights are probably
granted in the reproduction of the license in the accompanying
documentation.

Alternately, they are not in compliance with the requirements,
and have no rights to use the code.

-- Terry

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