From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 30 07:53:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA09295 for current-outgoing; Thu, 30 May 1996 07:53:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA09283 for ; Thu, 30 May 1996 07:53:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA02172; Thu, 30 May 1996 10:52:23 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 10:52:23 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9605301452.AA02172@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Bruce Evans Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: copyright notice in /usr/src/lib/libc/stdtime missing? In-Reply-To: <199605301327.XAA22580@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <199605301327.XAA22580@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > /usr/src/share/misc/ascii: > Less copyrightable than a phone book. Who knows if phone books are > copyrightable (I believe it depends on the method of collection of > entries)? Apparently not explicitly copyrighted. The file format > apparently doesn't allow comments. In the United States, phone books are not subject to copyright. However, your local laws may differ. (However, the rationale is probably the same: there simply is no creative intellectual input in a listing of all the names and numbers of telephone customers in a certain place.) > /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/*: > Not explicitly copyrighted. All copyrightable. Should be copyrighted > to permit further copying. Isn't there a central copyright for the > timezone release? zic sources are also missing copyrights. As mentioned before, no. Works created by the United States government, in the United States, are by definition in the public domain. In 1.x, there was a comment to this effect. In the Berkeley releases, a UC Regents copyright was pasted on (which they could do because the work was public-domain). You left one out: /usr/src/*/Makefile{,.inc} Probably not subject to copyright except for certain very complex examples. There is no creative input involved in writing: # $Id$ PROG= foo .include -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant