From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 7 22:36:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA83037B404 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 22:36:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54D49BD34; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 22:36:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA26359; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 22:36:36 -0700 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g385aUI87056; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 22:36:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Terry Lambert Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" , Ian Pulsford , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Abuses of the BSD license? References: <200204051922.06556@silver.dt1.binity.net> <3CAE7037.801FB15F@optusnet.com.au> <3CAEA028.186ED53E@optusnet.com.au> <3CAED90B.F4B7905@mindspring.com> <3CAEFFAA.91525BB3@optusnet.com.au> <3CAF74A9.135485DA@mindspring.com> <3CAFA609.32DD89E4@optusnet.com.au> <3CB01C27.CA0B2600@mindspring.com> <3CB1187C.3FA3D416@mindspring.com> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 07 Apr 2002 22:36:30 -0700 In-Reply-To: <3CB1187C.3FA3D416@mindspring.com> Message-ID: Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert writes: > "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > > Also, I think that a sublicense is not necessary since the whole world > > has already been licensed to use the code of interest. A license is > > only needed for the new part of the derivative. (17USC103: "The > > copyright in a compilation or derivative work extends only to the > > material contributed by the author of such work, ...".) > > The sublicense is required, since it is the only license on the > derivative works, unless the original license tries to propagate > to new code(the legality of which has yet to be tested by a > court). Read my above quote of 17USC103 again and consider the example of the UCB license which includes: "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted[...]". There's your license from that guy on his copyrights in the derivative work. Add your license from the deriver on the deriver's work in the derivative and no other license on the derivative is required. No propagation or court test is needed, because of the language of the UCBL and the fact that it is a license to everyone, not just the deriver. Similarly for the BSDL. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message