Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 21:20:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard) Cc: billf@chimesnet.com (Bill Fumerola), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), marko@FreeBSD.ORG (Mark Ovens), will@physics.purdue.edu (Will Andrews), advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stolen script? Message-ID: <200010022120.OAA11027@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <55711.970457762@winston.osd.bsdi.com> from "Jordan Hubbard" at Oct 01, 2000 08:36:02 PM
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> > So why do we even have src/COPYRIGHT, then? To copyright itself? > > I've always wondered that myself. Go do a grep on all our .c files > and you'll find that far more of them contain copyright lines than > don't, so even if it was intended as "a place to point" it certainly > never fulfilled that purpose. I think it was one of those "seemed > like a good idea at the time" things. I believe that legally, it's an aggregation copyright/license, and thus applies to all files that do not have their own separate copyright/license specifically attached. The whole "copyright/license on each and every file" thing is a pre-Berne holdover, which is theoretically useful in countries with laws based on the pre-Berne U.S. copyright law, but no longer germane in the U.S.. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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