From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 5 18:50:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7572137B405 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 18:50:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA10443; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 19:50:25 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010705194903.045d4910@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 19:50:23 -0600 To: "Joseph A. Mallett" , Mike Meyer From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: "Opposing" the "competition" (was: FreeBSD spokesman (was: So what happens to FreeBSD now?)) Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , In-Reply-To: References: <15173.2796.630368.467005@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 07:27 PM 7/5/2001, Joseph A. Mallett wrote: >I'm no lawyer, I don't even play one on TV, but as far as I know, you >can't say "This is public domain" and then place a restriction like "not >for commercial use" on it, without incorporating it into a non pd work, >with a license over the entire derived work which prohibits such. You're correct. What's unclear, though, is which of the two contradictory statements is legally binding. Different judges might rule differently on this. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message