Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:14:38 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Copyright Contradiction in libalias Message-ID: <20010820141438.K313@blossom.cjclark.org>
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I was doing some things in libalias when something caught my eye, $ cat alias.c /* -*- mode: c; tab-width: 8; c-basic-indent: 4; -*- */ /*- * Copyright (c) 2001 Charles Mott <cmott@scientech.com> * All rights reserved. * [snip usual BSD licence legalese and comments about the code.] This software is placed into the public domain with no restrictions on its distribution. This is contained in several files in there. This is a contradiction. Public domain software can't also have copyright notices and a bunch of license disclaimers. The BSD-style copyright header was added back in June. You can't just take something in the public domain and slap a copyright on it, but IANAL. Still, the comments in the code as written are self-contradictory. It can't have a BSD-license _and_ be public domain. And since again IANAL, I am not saying which needs to stay or which needs to go, but one of those statements does. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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