From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 18 15:10:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C314A16A4CE for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:10:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D40743D58 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:10:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sdrhodus@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 76so156266rnl for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:10:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.96.34 with SMTP id t34mr78208rnb; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:10:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:10:17 -0400 From: David Rhodus To: "mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk" In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: cc: Bosko Milekic cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Public Access to Perforce? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: drhodus@machdep.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:10:24 -0000 On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:50:02 +0100, mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk wrote: > bmilekic@FreeBSD.org wrote: > > > > If you want to talk about open-source, why don't you divert the attention > > to the frankly cowardly behavior going on pertaining to parts of the > > DragonFly source tree instead? Whereas DragonFly has appropriated a > > significant amount of FreeBSD code, only to ammend the lisencing to its > > own network code to include the advertising clause (removed officially > > from the BSDL a while ago now), and for what? Only to make it difficult for > > FreeBSD to take some of the code back. > > Strictly speaking, this is surely illegal? > > The BSD license states that you may pretty much do what you like as long as you retain the copyright. Surely changing the license fails to meet the license conditions, and thus doing so without the permission of the original copyright holder is in breach of the license. These are entirely new files and completely original development work of Jeff Hsu. So the BSD license doesn't apply in the case of completely original development. -- -David Steven David Rhodus