On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 02:48:08PM -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? > > http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html
That copyright notice on the website should apply to everything that is not under some other license. Different parts of the system is under different licenses and copyrights depending on who wrote it. The mkdir.c *was* under the 4 clause license. However all material that was part of the original BSDs and thus was copyrighted by "The Regents of the University of California" has had its license changed such that clause 3 (the advertising clause) no longer apply. This would seem to include mkdir.c Most of the files in the source tree have not had their copyright notices updated to reflect this. See http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/license.html for details on this license. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
