From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Apr 19 23:55:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6553D14FEB for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 23:55:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA23718; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 02:08:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 02:08:39 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Greg Lehey Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: You can take my source. (fwd) In-Reply-To: <19990420161003.Y40482@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 20 April 1999 at 1:53:17 -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > * (c) UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. > > * All or some portions of this file are derived from material licensed > > * to the University of California by American Telephone and Telegraph > > * Co. or Unix System Laboratories, Inc. and are reproduced herein with > > * the permission of UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. > > > > Am i doing my part? :) > > I'm not sure. I would think you could have chosen a better example. > If you have really sent this to Microsoft, I think you should at least > retract your statement. Maybe i'm being a bit clueless here (hey it's happened more times than I can count and i'm a bit tired) but doesn't the: > > * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without > > * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions > > * are met: > > * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright > > * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. > > * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright > > * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the > > * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. > > * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software > > * must display the following acknowledgement: > > * This product includes software developed by the University of > > * California, Berkeley and its contributors. > > * 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors > > * may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software > > * without specific prior written permission. > > * > > * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND .. constitute the way that most of the BSD license works? I don't think the source of the code really matters as long as it follows that spirit: keep my copyright, don't blame me if it goes "boom" or am i missing something? it's not phk's "beer-ware license" but i thought it was official enough and at the same time "open source" even though it has the: > > * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software > > * must display the following acknowledgement: > > * This product includes software developed by the University of > > * California, Berkeley and its contributors. clause.. I'll retract the statement if you disagree as i do value your judgement. perhaps you would like to go over the email with a red pen (sorta) and i'll submit a revised post? -Alfred > > Greg > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message