From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 20 23:30:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-d.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.13.43.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E803B37B40D for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 23:30:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Received: by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 86A5C3E91; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 02:30:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78EC5BA82; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 02:30:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 02:30:43 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Cc: Brian Somers , Andrew Kenneth Milton , , Subject: Re: Copyright Contradiction in libalias In-Reply-To: <20010820182721.N313@blossom.cjclark.org> Message-ID: <20010821022857.V11248-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Crist J. Clark wrote: >It is now written policy, and I >believe it was the understood, unwritten policy in the past, that any >patches and additions to a file in FreeBSD are governed by the >existing licensing of the file unless otherwise stated. This would >indicate to me that this file is arguably still public domain. The problem with source in the public domain versus a BSD license is that public domain source code does not explicitly release the project and author from liability. I'm sure that's why a BSD license was slapped over this code. -- "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law against it by that time." -- /usr/games/fortune, 07/30/2001 Brandon D. Valentine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message