Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 04:41:12 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Abuses of the BSD license? Message-ID: <3CB181D8.AD797C8A@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10204080430170.33374-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
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Jamie Bowden wrote: > :USL recognized this in their license. If you have access to a > :SVR4 derived machine that was shipped after the USL vs. UCB > :settlement, look at the license on the header files. [ ... ] > /* > * > * Copyright 1992-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc. > * All Rights Reserved. > * > * This is UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE of Silicon Graphics, Inc.; > * the contents of this file may not be disclosed to third parties, copied > or > * duplicated in any form, in whole or in part, without the prior written > * permission of Silicon Graphics, Inc. > * > * RESTRICTED RIGHTS LEGEND: > * Use, duplication or disclosure by the Government is subject to > restrictions > * as set forth in subdivision (c)(1)(ii) of the Rights in Technical Data > * and Computer Software clause at DFARS 252.227-7013, and/or in similar or > * successor clauses in the FAR, DOD or NASA FAR Supplement. Unpublished - > * rights reserved under the Copyright Laws of the United States. > */ > /* Copyright (c) 1988 AT&T */ > /* All Rights Reserved */ > > /* THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T */ > /* The copyright notice above does not evidence any */ > /* actual or intended publication of such source code. */ > > What are we supposed to see? If the header was derived from BSD code, you are supposed to see compliance with the BSD license, in the form of its inclusion *after* the USL license. That you have an AT&T license indicates that this code was published after the SVR4.0.1, but before the UCB/USL settlement, which included the propert attribution of UCB in the copyright notices in source files, including system header files. 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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