From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 16:48:14 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5C71106564A for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:48:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vx0-f182.google.com (mail-vx0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D9538FC17 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:48:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vcmm1 with SMTP id m1so267309vcm.13 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:48:13 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=23a1da9wu3oH4BnW9OZGLY78Q/ENY9PhhWbn48tZlHs=; b=RNen+q2pAZ4PBSsHB4qmwEunmTP+y3t5a+IXCCWarBY/EJoBC+kPhkoqAqDlOg6MsV nzDOtUsNO7sgnTu7ZAfu73/9wHRWz8HIG2ZXLJ93hT/gzzHbrnxetuVYzuA4Q4xdO54d +ga++RFj7wVGUPZ/ATQB29DYrsqGlE2Hrn5Eg= Received: by 10.220.140.196 with SMTP id j4mr14053212vcu.12.1328028493630; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:48:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (c-98-212-197-29.hsd1.il.comcast.net. [98.212.197.29]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id bj13sm10026385vdc.15.2012.01.31.08.48.11 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:48:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F281B45.30101@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:48:05 -0600 From: Joshua Isom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4F27FAD8.7000507@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <4F27FAD8.7000507@qeng-ho.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD license vs /usr/bin/true license X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:48:14 -0000 You might have to re-write it from scratch. It's still copyrighted by the university. I'd say write it in c++ to dispel all doubt that you didn't copy. Then true and groff will be c++. There's still software in the tree that uses the four clause license. But because of the advertising clause, you can't really talk about it or else you have to list it. On 1/31/2012 8:29 AM, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 01/31/12 12:55, vermaden wrote: >> FreeBSD, as specified here [1] uses 2-clause BSD license, >> but /usr/bin/true [2] (as empty as it is) uses something like >> 3-clause BSD license, is that desired? >> >> [1] http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html >> [2] >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/usr.bin/true/true.c > > By coincidence, this link turned up on Hacker News Daily this morning. > It's about the copyright on the true command. > > http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/ATT_Copyright_true.html > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"