From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Oct 3 1:20: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D644437B66C; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 01:19:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13gNRz-000PPh-00; Tue, 03 Oct 2000 02:29:23 -0600 Message-ID: <39D998E3.57449F25@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 02:29:23 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Jordan Hubbard , Alfred Perlstein , Mark Ovens , Will Andrews , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stolen script? References: <55614.970457144@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <20001001232812.F38472@jade.chc-chimes.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Fumerola wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 08:25:44PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > I'm afraid that such "blanket coverage" would not be even remotely > > legal, according to the Bern convention or otherwise. All files must > > bear the appropriate rcopyright text, especially given the fact that > > we mix and match copyrights under /usr/src - /usr/src/gnu is obviously > > not covered by src/COPYRIGHT for example. > > So why do we even have src/COPYRIGHT, then? To copyright itself? To make it really easy to find one when you need it? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message