Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 17:48:48 -0400 From: Ken Arromdee <arromdee@inetnow.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: uudx Message-ID: <357DADC0.2EF5@inetnow.net>
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How do I tell what the license is on a FreeBSD source file? I am specifically interested in uudx, since I'm trying to find a uudecode program which doesn't contain the 'advertising clause' (which says that if a feature is advertised you have to include a credit in the advertising), so I can cut the routine out and use it in another program. (As a programmer, I have little influence on how the marketing division advertises anything.) The routine itself is only a few lines, but I've looked at it enough times that I'd be hard pressed to write one of my own which doesn't include a few lines of BSD-copyrighted code. There is a license on www.freebsd.org which contains the 'advertising clause', but it's not clear which files the license applies to (it clearly can't apply to _all_ files, and in any case the source for uudx is not located on www.freebsd.org). uudx itself contains no copyright notice, and I can't read the documentation because it's in Japanese. Email to the listed author (pcs28337@asciinet.or.jp) bounces. Does uudx include the 'advertising clause'? If not, exactly what sort of copyright is it under? If so, is there any way I can get a uudecode routine which doesn't include it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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