From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jan 3 14:24:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA20196 for doc-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 14:24:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from linux4nn.gn.iaf.nl (root@linux4nn.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA19214 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 14:18:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from uni4nn.iaf.nl (root@uni4nn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.33]) by linux4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA00692; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 23:18:36 +0100 Received: by uni4nn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA21113 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Wed, 3 Jan 1996 23:18:25 +0100 Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA03906 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4); Wed, 3 Jan 1996 23:15:44 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.6.11/8.6.6) id TAA00607; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 19:21:10 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199601031821.TAA00607@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Has the copyright dust settled? To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 19:21:10 +0100 (MET) Cc: doc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "John Fieber" at Jan 2, 96 10:55:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > On Thu, 28 Dec 1995, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > Maybe I missed it, but what was the final outcome of the copyright > > 'war' (for lack of a better word..) ? > > I've been reading a bit on copyright and looking through various license > statements. Since the standard BSD-style license is really geared toward > programs, I think we should cook up a standard document license. Each > author would be the copyright holder of their contributions to the > handbook, accompanied with the licence permitting the standard BSD > license activities (copy, modify, distribute, etc). > > -john Sounds good to me. Since lawyers are more abundant (and needed :-( ) in the US, is there someone on the list who can produce something that fits John's description? Wilko _ __________________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------------