Date: 10 Jun 1998 18:35:13 -0400 From: mycroft@mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum) To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> Cc: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, core@FreeBSD.ORG, cgd@netbsd.org, ross@netbsd.org, core@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Copyright infringement in FreeBSD/alpha Message-ID: <el2pvggubq6.fsf@lunacity.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: "Justin T. Gibbs"'s message of Wed, 10 Jun 1998 15:09:07 -0600 References: <199806102113.PAA09812@pluto.plutotech.com>
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"Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> writes: > >...an error made worse by the fact that, regardless of what the head > >revision of the file has, revisions LACKING the notice are still available > >via the exported RCS information. > > And you still have legal recourse to defend your claim to that code > regardless of whether the copyright is there or not. Your legal rights are > the same regardless of whether the user pulls the revision out of CVS that > lacks your copyright or they delete the copyrights manually. And you still are distributing a version that violates the license (c.f. `must retain the above copyright notice, ...'). And we are still informing you that you are doing so, which seems substantially more courteous than immediately talking to a lawyer about it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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