From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Sep 18 20:20:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE84937B422 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 20:20:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13bE5z-0000H9-00; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:29:23 -0600 Message-ID: <39C6DD93.280F6918@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:29:23 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Fumerola Cc: "Jeremy C. Reed" , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RWS References: <20000918174554.B567@parish> <20000918160146.J66839@jade.chc-chimes.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Fumerola wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:33:04AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > > ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change says > > "Effective immediately, licensees and distributors are no longer required > > to include the acknowledgement within advertising materials." > > Which is okay for 4.4bsd derived files, but if I checked in a file to the > tree with the standard license 2 years ago, you now have to contact me to > get it removed, because its my copyright, not UCBs. > > This gets more complicated if I was hit by a bus in the mean time, or am > now out of reach ("screw computers! I'm going to become a hermit!"), because > you have to contact _me_. > > Well, at least that's how I understand it. That depends on whether you changed/added a license that claims YOUR copyright, or merely committed changes with the original copyright in place. Yes, it certainly can be a problem when people contribute code claiming their copyright and then go Kaczinski on us. Which reminds me, I should go through my stuff and change the copyrights for anything that didn't already get the 2-clause license. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message