Re: Non-free postscript code in EPS image
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 06:24:25AM +0000, Bart Martens wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 05:01:07PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 12:45:27AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> > > > even
> > > > when portions are copyright other people/entities.
> >
> > > If there is a hint to distrust what people claim about their work,
> > > I see no way how a judge could believe a "But I was told it is" if one
> > > did not at least check what hints one got.
> >
> > > If someone claims he has a license from Adobe, then well, believe him
> > > unless you run into some statement from Adobe that they do not give
> > > away any licenses like that. If someone just claims it is under a free
> > > license but does not even refer to those parts having a different copyright,
> > > then it gets unlikely enough in my eyes that one has to assume the default
> > > of the law: no permission at all.
> >
> > This notion of documenting the copyright of every single line of every
> > single file is a new development in Debian - and not a healthy one.
>
> Every copyright notice means that there is at least a part copyrighted by the
> mentioned copyright holder.
Every? Like this one, that can be found in /bin/true on some systems?
-------8<------
# Copyright (c) 1984 AT&T
# All Rights Reserved
# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
# actual or intended publication of such source code.
#ident "@(#)cmd/true.sh 50.1"
-------8<------
(and the file had *no* other content)
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