Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 15:35:12 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>, Mark Ovens <marko@FreeBSD.ORG>, Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stolen script? Message-ID: <20001002153511.Z27736@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200010022120.OAA11027@usr05.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:20:21PM %2B0000 References: <55711.970457762@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <200010022120.OAA11027@usr05.primenet.com>
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* Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> [001002 14:54] wrote:
> > > 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..
It sorta made me wonder, each file in linux has a single:
Copyright (c) Linus 199x...
But not even a mention of linux/COPYING
But then again that does mention a copyright even if not what it
actually entails. src/etc/security has nothing besideds a Berkeley
RCS tag and src/COPYRIGHT above it.
whereas most anything coming from the FSF has this attached to it:
/* dbxout.h - Various declarations for functions found in dbxout.c
Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GNU CC.
GNU CC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
any later version.
GNU CC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with GNU CC; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
--
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
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