On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 09:21:34AM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > I believe that the copyright statement is not a part of the > license. The copyright statement is merely informational text, in > countries that are Berne convention signatories, is it not? I have been > under the impression that the license is the stuff following the > copyright statement which outlines your rights and restrictions _in_ > _addition_ to standard copyright. > > Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. You're not wrong. A copyright notice can exist without an attached license and vice versa. Especially given that (in theory), a license has the same force regardless of the identity of the copyright holder, I think it would make sense for the exception to quote the OpenSSL license, but not its copyright notices. -- G. Branden Robinson | America is at that awkward stage. Debian GNU/Linux | It's too late to work within the branden@debian.org | system, but too early to shoot the http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | bastards. -- Claire Wolfe
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