On Jul 1, 2004, at 7:27, Eitarou Kamo wrote:
Hi Q,
Q wrote:
My curiosity is that the FreeBSD and NetBSD license are left. And should those licenses are kept after porting?
Yes the original license and copyright notices are all kept intact, it's one of the requirements of virtually every opensource license. To remove them would be a violation of the original copyright holders requirements.
This is important. For the people to port from now this must be a point, not to port beyond the law.
The words "Redistributions" in the FreeBSD License includes "porting"?
But I heard, the algorithm of the source code wasn't preserved
by the copyright. In the case of the porting from FreeBSD to other
different flavor OS (e.g. Linux), the algorithm is used. But the variables or
way of writing is not used.
This is a fine point of copyright law, and few engineers/programmers are in a position to know the answer. Your best bet is to read the license in full, and refer to a lawyer familiar with this area of law. Check the websites for the EFF <http://www.eff.org> and OSI <http://opensource.org> for details.
In this case what should I do? Ethically I should notice FreeBSD license. But.... It's a bit contradiction, I think.
I'm not sure what you mean by "this case". If you are porting Darwin code to some other system, then you have to follow the license requirements for the components you use. As has been pointed out earlier in this thread, some of the Darwin OS code is from FreeBSD and other sources with similar licenses; and some is developed largely by Apple (so the APSL applies). If you are porting to Darwin, then the license on the code you start with applies.
In either case, you do need to understand the license issues. The best we can do is to answer specific questions, but you still may be better off discussing this via one of the above sites.
Regards,
Justin
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