I was doing some things in libalias when something caught my eye,
$ cat alias.c
/* -*- mode: c; tab-width: 8; c-basic-indent: 4; -*- */
/*-
* Copyright (c) 2001 Charles Mott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* All rights reserved.
*
[snip usual BSD licence legalese and comments about the code.]
This software is placed into the public domain with no restrictions
on its distribution.
This is contained in several files in there.
This is a contradiction. Public domain software can't also have
copyright notices and a bunch of license disclaimers. The BSD-style
copyright header was added back in June. You can't just take something
in the public domain and slap a copyright on it, but IANAL.
Still, the comments in the code as written are self-contradictory. It
can't have a BSD-license _and_ be public domain. And since again
IANAL, I am not saying which needs to stay or which needs to go, but
one of those statements does.
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Crist J. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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