From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 18 10:55:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8ACF106568C for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:55:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unixmania@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31C348FC1C for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:55:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unixmania@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so679404fgb.35 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:55:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=4qxj0cWtWoCXB2WEY4fht8d59Tct0a2SFgP+9JPSupM=; b=HLctTAu2Nnd2j+jIUYf4TA2zWMKOYf1W3P2yQ/oLvCuymK8ZUBngHxM+QlDdbV7a82 Ug2RRmgo52wa/mQQMlptn0MR0D98ccihcPMGZDsKF/JMInEq0qmddRd+T5mAse/I4GA2 Pt77bN9Il1f/O1okSz14uzrhtt7baKE8pjQeg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=hXCMFS2M5GGNmCSObfxxEWWqE8/dm1x98q8w/s8viDNCQ3Q6C7SzOnZgHeJK2QfyMf xbukD0bWKacUsNsLgoPr1CjfyU5z/IVXx5KznLjT6tWwcUsIXb1bujkOXf0UKOt01MaM EZwoD8DLGcIiS2lpRguxgm/twRiTlc6dgk68o= Received: by 10.103.241.5 with SMTP id t5mr2759311mur.72.1224327314688; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:55:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.103.231.14 with HTTP; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:55:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:55:14 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" To: "Hans Petter Selasky" In-Reply-To: <200810180932.33848.hselasky@c2i.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20081015173319.GB46393@elvis.mu.org> <200810152124.12637.hselasky@c2i.net> <200810180932.33848.hselasky@c2i.net> Cc: "Sam Leffler \(FreeBSD Project\)" , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: (forw) Re: USB4BSD - release candidate 2 - coming to FreeBSD this week. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:55:16 -0000 On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 4:32 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On Friday 17 October 2008, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Hans Petter Selasky > 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. >From a strictly legal POV even makefiles would need copyright licences if they contained intellectual creation. Most makefiles, however, are simple "this depends on that and is built this way" declarations. Calling them intellectual creations is questionable, so they fall in a grey area. I'd add a licence to the makefiles anyway, at least while they were part of a standalone package or patch set. Once they become integrated to FreeBSD's code base, they can be considered as part of the system, so the project's copyright and license terms will apply. -- cd /usr/ports/sysutils/life make clean