4 May
2010
4 May
'10
6:26 p.m.
On Mon, April 26, 2010 05:23 "Greg 'groggy' Lehey"
<grog(a)lemis.com> wrote:
OK, I mounted the CD-ROM and looked for copyright
statements. The
only one I found was /COPYRGHT.TXT, a modified 8 paragraph BSD license
with \r\n line delimiters, attached.
Arguably it only applies to the OS sources, but it's the only license
I can see.
Indeed, it can be argued that the statement refers to 386BSD Release 1.0
sec, not the 386BSD Reference CD-ROM as a whole, but it is hard to draw
a line, if any.
It probibits commercial distributions, but the
important
clause from our point of view is:
* 5. Non-commercial distribution of the complete source and/or binary
* release at no charge to the user (such as from an official Internet
* archive site) is permitted.
I was going to take out just the source tree, but another clause
states:
* 7. Non-commercial and/or commercial distribution of an incomplete,
* altered, or otherwise modified source and/or binary release is not
* permitted.
Same issue here, would excluding eg. .book & .articles make the Release
incomplete or not?
Since this is the only copyright statement, I assume
that this means I
can put up the entire CD image, but not just part of it, so that's
what I've done. It's at http://www.lemis.com/grog/src/386BSD-1.0.bz2 .
The only thing I could find that makes some sort of demarcation is the
installer, which leaves some bits behind when doing a full install.
Without vehement arguing from stakeholders or copyright lawyers to the
contrary I assume the same and thank you for putting it up there.
/Jacob