From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 20 14:16:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11AF837B407 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:16:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (dialup-209.247.136.151.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.136.151]) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA27803 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:15:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) id f7KLEov64981 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:14:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:14:38 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Copyright Contradiction in libalias Message-ID: <20010820141438.K313@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 * 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