Re: blurb blurb

2006-10-12 Thread Bob Beck
> > We, the authors of this work, are giving it away to you, dear > > reader (and to everyone else), as an opportunity, not as a > > service. Do with it whatever you want. We welcome your > > contributions, and we owe you nothing. > > This fails to grant the rights explicitly ide

Re: blurb blurb

2006-10-11 Thread Damien Miller
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Paul Stoeber wrote: > I wonder if the following language would provide the same level of > protection or better: > > We, the authors of this work, are giving it away to you, dear > reader (and to everyone else), as an opportunity, not as a > service. Do with it w

Re: blurb blurb

2006-10-11 Thread Theo de Raadt
> I've been thinking about the legal blurbs in the source files, the > most permissive being the one in, for example, src/bin/chio/parse.y > > I feel it's a bit silly to bother with them, since they have no > technical significance. But perhaps it's worthwhile, every once > in a while, to ponder