Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 02:30:43 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> To: <cjclark@alum.mit.edu> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>, <brian@freebsd-services.com> Subject: Re: Copyright Contradiction in libalias Message-ID: <20010821022857.V11248-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <20010820182721.N313@blossom.cjclark.org>
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On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Crist J. Clark wrote: >It is now written policy, and I >believe it was the understood, unwritten policy in the past, that any >patches and additions to a file in FreeBSD are governed by the >existing licensing of the file unless otherwise stated. This would >indicate to me that this file is arguably still public domain. The problem with source in the public domain versus a BSD license is that public domain source code does not explicitly release the project and author from liability. I'm sure that's why a BSD license was slapped over this code. -- "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law against it by that time." -- /usr/games/fortune, 07/30/2001 Brandon D. Valentine <bandix at looksharp.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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