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Cc: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>,
	"Sam Leffler \(FreeBSD Project\)" <sam@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: (forw) Re: USB4BSD - release candidate 2 - coming to FreeBSD
	this week.
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On Friday 17 October 2008, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> 
wrote:
> >> 6. Many files lack a copyright/license (e.g. modules/*).
> >
> > It is BSD licensed like the rest of the code.
>
> International law recognizes implicit copyright, not implicit
> licensing. If you are the author then you are the implicit copyright
> holder, unless you have signed a contract assigning the copyright to
> someone else. So you are the only person legally allowed to add a
> license statement to that code. Somebody else can do it, of course,
> but only with your written permission; otherwise it would be a crime.

Yes, but the files under modules/* are Makefile. Do Makefiles need a license. 
Else I completely agree with you.

--HPS