From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 12 02:23:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA19620 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 02:23:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA19529 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 02:22:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA16454; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 02:22:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 02:22:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Ken Arromdee cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uudx In-Reply-To: <357DADC0.2EF5@inetnow.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Ken Arromdee wrote: > How do I tell what the license is on a FreeBSD source file? Look at the top -- the copyright is in every file. Most are covered under the BSD license. > I am specifically interested in uudx, since I'm trying to find a > uudecode program which doesn't contain the 'advertising clause' (which > says that if a feature is advertised you have to include a credit in the > advertising), so I can cut the routine out and use it in another > program. (As a programmer, I have little influence on how the marketing > division advertises anything.) Both BSD and GNU have that, and those are the predominant copyrights. It's only one line, and you can make it 6 point on the legalese page. :) ``This program contains code developed by the University of California, Berkeley, and it's contributors.'' That's it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message