Re: (forw) Re: USB4BSD - release candidate 2 - coming to FreeBSD this week.

From: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky_at_c2i.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:32:32 +0200
On Friday 17 October 2008, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky_at_c2i.net> 
wrote:
> >> 6. Many files lack a copyright/license (e.g. modules/*).
> >
> > It is BSD licensed like the rest of the code.
>
> International law recognizes implicit copyright, not implicit
> licensing. If you are the author then you are the implicit copyright
> holder, unless you have signed a contract assigning the copyright to
> someone else. So you are the only person legally allowed to add a
> license statement to that code. Somebody else can do it, of course,
> but only with your written permission; otherwise it would be a crime.

Yes, but the files under modules/* are Makefile. Do Makefiles need a license. 
Else I completely agree with you.

--HPS
Received on Sat Oct 18 2008 - 05:30:29 UTC

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