On Sun, Aug 16, 1998 at 07:48:12PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Something to consider: Unlike the GPL, most licenses do not include their > own license. Most packages come from upstream in a single tarball, > including the file containing the license, which is considered to apply to > all the files in the tarball. Does it not, then, apply to itself? If so, > this would make most free licenses free.
No, I don't think this is true. Every source file should have a header where it says "This work is copyrighted under whatever license". Just because a license is in the same tar archive does not mean that all files are covered under it. Mmmh. I don't know what license applies to license which come without license. Maybe copyright law says something about it. Oh well. At some point, it seems that common practice is not rock-solid, and maybe never will. As we have no way to pay a lawyer to solve all the issues involved, we should do what Manoj said and try our best to comply to law. Thank you, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
