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From: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com>
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Subject: Re: Handbook Stuff
To: grog@lemis.de
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 14:40:50 -0600 (CST)
Cc: peter@taronga.com, doc@freebsd.org
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In-Reply-To: <199512200918.KAA14162@allegro.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Dec 20, 95 10:18:13 am
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Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> Peter da Silva writes:
> > 
> > Gary Clark II  <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com> wrote:
> > >Another NOTE:  We may want to think about doing this for the sources also.
> > >There are many files within the tree that say this coded was contributed
> > >to UCB and name the author.   Make the copyright FreeBSD Project, Inc.
> > >and give a credit within the license to the person who developed it.
> > 
> > Is that legal?
> > 
> > I'm not trying to stir up trouble or nothing, but it seems a little on the
> > shady side. Please feel free to correct me if I'm confused...
> 
Ok, I see what the problem is...:)  I was talking about NEW copyrights, not
the original UCB stuff.  As an example, all of the new handbook stuff that
is written by jkh, john or myself, will be copyright FreeBSD, INC. 

> It's up to a lawyer to determine whether it's legal or not.  I suspect
> that it's legal if we want it to be.  Also, the issue of copyright
> doesn't mean that other people can't copy it: it means that the
> copyright owner has the right to decide whether other people can copy
> it.
> 
> I think the basic intention of any copyright on the manual is that its
> distribution shouldn't be restricted, and that the work of the
> contributors should be acknowledged--very much the same as the
> Berkeley copyright.  If you (doc people in general, not Peter) want to
> assign copyright to somebody to protect this right, and you're worried
> about FreeBSD Inc., how about assigning a fallback copyright to UCB,
> or just assign it to UCB in the first place, assuming they're
> interested in helping?
> 
> Greg
> 
I'm not worried about FreeBSD Inc..  I'm happy with Jordan and David running
the train.

Gary

Gary Clark II (N5VMF)