From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jun 10 14:44:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA27340 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 14:44:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (daemon@smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA26832; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 14:42:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22746; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 14:42:05 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd022658; Wed Jun 10 14:41:57 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA13184; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 14:41:49 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199806102141.OAA13184@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Copyright infringement in FreeBSD/alpha To: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 21:41:49 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, core@FreeBSD.ORG, cgd@netbsd.org, ross@netbsd.org, core@netbsd.org In-Reply-To: <199806102054.NAA24707@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from "Jason Thorpe" at Jun 10, 98 01:54:53 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Again, it is an issue of an error (which Doug is trying to correct right > > away, as soon as being notified), vs. an attitude which you are > > showing clearly that you care little about giving credit other > > than on purely legal necessity. > > ...an error made worse by the fact that, regardless of what the head > revision of the file has, revisions LACKING the notice are still available > via the exported RCS information. But only via extraction from a file that has the information in it; I think the copyright notice on the RCS file covers the derivatives of that file. It's not like you can "cvs co" without having the full file available to you. I could make the same argument about the copyrights on my LKM code, which are not visible when I install NetBSD from a disk image, as when I installed my HP340 box. They would be just as invalid, given the blanketting and file level associativity of copyright statements. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message