Re: 4 Clause license?

From: Simon L. Nielsen <simon_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:04:18 +0100
On 2003.11.17 14:48:08 -0500, Rod Taylor wrote:
> The PostgreSQL group has recently had a patch submitted with a snippet
> of code from FreeBSDs src/bin/mkdir/mkdir.c.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/bin/mkdir/mkdir.c?annotate=1.27
> 
> Is this intentionally under the 4 clause license or does the copyright
> from the website (2 clause) applied to everything that is non-contrib?

The license in each file is the one that is authoritative.  The file you
are refering to has original 'The Regents of the University of
California' copyright, so the "advertising clause" is revoked as per
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change .

Hope this helps.

Disclaimer: This is my own view of the issue, and I don't speak
"officially" for the FreeBSD project.

I'm sure somebody will correct me if I'm wrong :-).

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team

Received on Mon Nov 17 2003 - 11:04:21 UTC

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