Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 21:41:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, core@FreeBSD.ORG, cgd@netbsd.org, ross@netbsd.org, core@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Copyright infringement in FreeBSD/alpha Message-ID: <199806102141.OAA13184@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199806102054.NAA24707@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from "Jason Thorpe" at Jun 10, 98 01:54:53 pm
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> > 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
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