Subject: Re: quick license question
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubertf@gmx.de>
From: Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/09/2007 15:23:59
It's just a set of configuration templates that have been modified with 
keyword substitution:

http://bsd-appliance.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/framework/misc/shadow_root.TEMPLATE_NBSD3/etc/

and:

http://bsd-appliance.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/framework/misc/shadow_root.TEMPLATE_NBSD3/etc/syslog.conf

~~BAS

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> In article <20070222230531.Y84901@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org> you wrote:
>> "...most files _don't_ contain the standard NetBSD license header..."
>>
>> ...which makes sense for src/etc/*, that would get really ugly, really
>> fast.
>
> (Please keep me on CC:)
>
> I'm not sure what you have in mind, maybe you can give a few examples of
> files you are talking about, and what you want to do with them?
>
> In general, something doesn't need to bear a copyright notice to still be
> covered by copyright law. For trivial things, this would be boring to
> enforce though, see e.g. the implementations of true(1) and false(1) which
> got their license texts removed for that reason.
>
>
> - Hubert
>

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