From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 15 18:19:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E35116A4CE for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:19:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from av13-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (av13-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 000CA43D41 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:19:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: by av13-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id CE5E137E46; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:19:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp4-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp4-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.180]) by av13-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C02A037E42 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:19:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h201n1fls24o1048.bredband.comhem.se [212.181.162.201]) by smtp4-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 978A937E4B for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:19:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 50784 invoked by uid 1001); 15 Sep 2004 18:19:08 -0000 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:19:08 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Max Laier Message-ID: <20040915181907.GA50755@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Max Laier , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-Ports , Rob B , Radek Kozlowski References: <6.1.2.0.2.20040914140834.0264fd60@mail.nerdshack.com> <20040914042027.GA2453@hub.freebsd.org> <200409151814.50243.max@love2party.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200409151814.50243.max@love2party.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: FreeBSD-Ports cc: Rob B cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org cc: Radek Kozlowski Subject: Re: Drop of portindex X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:19:11 -0000 On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 06:14:35PM +0200, Max Laier wrote: > On Tuesday 14 September 2004 06:20, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 02:16:22PM +1000, Rob B wrote: > > > I would say, from reading the pr, and the fact that there is no licence > > > specified, that the author has released it into the public domain - as > > > well as relinquishing copyright. Since the licence on this version has > > > either been changed or not specified, anyone could possibly pick up the > > > project. > > > > No, that's not how it works. If no rights are granted to you by the > > author, you have no rights to his property, including the right to > > redistribute. > > I am no lawyer, but it seems to me that fair use applies and (every) former > user of this work is allowed to (at least) create a derivative work and > release it (under own copyright) to the public as the original work is "out > of print or otherwise unavailable". Fair use doesn't allow you to do that. Fair use essentially only allows you to quote small parts of a copyrighted work for certain purposes, and possibly to make a copy for your own personal use (altough recent changes copyright law (like the infamous DMCA) might even disallow that nowdays.) You are certainly not allowed to distribute copies of a copyrighted work without the copyright-holders permission. (And derivative works also fall under the original authors copyright, so you can't distribute those either.) That the original work is "out of print or otherwise unavailable" is irrelevant. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se