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From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
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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
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