John Plocher writes: > So, why bother copyrighting these kinds of files at all? Why not simply > release them into the public domain? On the face of it, it is absurd to > think that Sun has a copyright on my hosts or aliases files simply because > they provided an virtually empty file with that name in the distribution...
Yes, it's insane. For what it's worth, I fought this battle when I did the initial CDDL-splatting on ON, and I lost. The lawyers were quite clear that it had to be that pre-formatted, huge-and-obnoxious blob of text (it couldn't just be a one line "see the license" message), and that it had to be on every "source" file unless it was just technically infeasible to do so. Perhaps things have changed and we can get this redone. It'd sure be nice, as I felt terrible injecting this junk into the gate. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
