From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 12 10:17:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86A283F2A for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 10:17:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from newsguy.com (dcs@p18-dnz01kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.132.6.147]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id DAA14603; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 03:16:39 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38A5A355.92BE74B5@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 03:15:49 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Wemm Cc: Laurence Berland , Andrew Kenneth Milton , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My views on Eclipse/BSD References: <20000212053047.0CC201CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Wemm wrote: > > One key thing to keep in mind is that copyrights apply automatically > regardless of age, contracts etc. You have no right to copy a copyrighted > work unless the right to do so is given to you (or you have statutory > rights such as making backups etc). In this case, you don't have the right > to redistribute it except those granted by the license with it's > conditions. If you don't accept the license or cannot because you're under > the age of being able to enter into a contract or whatever, then you can't > redistribute it *period*. You can download it (they are distributing it, > not you), and do pretty much whatever you like with it once they've given > it to you, but you can't give it to anyone else. This means that if you > were under 18 etc, you probably could use it for commercial purposes if you > believed the license didn't apply. (And Lucent/whoever *do* own the > copyright on the additional Eclipse stuff). So... basically... you can't redistribute GPL code unless law permits you to enter contracts? How funny... :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "If you consider our help impolite, you should see the manager." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message