24 Jan
2002
24 Jan
'02
9:43 p.m.
Bill Gunshannon wrote:
Warren,
being as you have already answered my question regarding how this
effects BSD 4.x, that leaves only one question. Does this require
that the Caldera Copyright notice be inserted into all the source
files before they can be released anywhere?? For example, if I put
up a site for the continued develpment of Ultrix-11 do all the files
need to contain the Caldera Copyright before I can allow people to
work with them?? Mind, I don't mean the whole text of the message,
I merely mean the line Copyright Caldera 2001, 2002.......
While I am not a lawyer, and don't speak officially for Caldera on this,
I know that the
intent of this was not to require the addition or changing of any
copyright notices in the
files themselves. Strictly speaking, the actual copyright ownership
hasn't really changed.
The copyright was owned by Caldera and it still is.
The actual copyright notices which may appear in various parts of the
source code are
historic and haven't reflected the current ownership of the code for
years - nor do they
need to. (I believe that from a strict legal standpoint the actual
copyright notice in the
code is essentially irrelevant)
What has changed is the license under which it may be used.
I believe that it is sufficient to provide a single copy of the license
/ copyright text from
the letter along with any file or files that either come directly from
or are derived from
any of the listed operating systems.