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Date:      19 Feb 2003 13:40:44 -0800
From:      swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>, Pat Lathem <plathem@ivestnw.net>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Copying of Developer's Guide
Message-ID:  <fwk7fw2bkz.7fw@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20030219161238.GF6403@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
References:  <3E4FE9AC.9050308@ivestnw.net> <20030216214612.GA1463@nosferatu.blackend.org> <20030219161238.GF6403@clan.nothing-going-on.org>

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Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> Just to be explicit, we could slightly expand point 2;
> 
>   2.  Redistribution in compiled form (...), or in print, must
>       reproduce, ...

That's explicit, but it's not the explicit license asked for.
Reproduction and public distribution are separate copyrights under US
copyright law (as is derivation).  Printers might not be willing to find
a license to "reproduce in printed form" in the word "use".

According to the OP, the conditions are clearly being met, so changing
them might be insufficient.  It's the first paragraph that seems to be
the stumbling block.

I'd like to propose a fix, but IANAL.

(The conditions have their own problems.  They each refer to a missing
"above copyright notice" , which, when found, refers to a copyright
owner which can't be found.)

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