From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8a3c1965bd416ce9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-28 11:42:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Dual_IO (2) Date: 28 Jul 2001 11:42:25 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0107281042.42c1646b@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.224.77.203 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 996345745 20074 127.0.0.1 (28 Jul 2001 18:42:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-support@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Jul 2001 18:42:25 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10668 Date: 2001-07-28T18:42:25+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote in message news:... > 2) There appear to be no copyright notices or license information > anywhere. As Dr. Dewar is fond of pointing out, that means (at least > in the US) that we are not allowed *any* rights to the sources > whatsoever. Is that really what you want? Please do not misquote me and spread inaccurate information, it means nothing of the kind. The point is that in the US (and in Europe and elsewhere), the copyright status and licensing status of a document are independent of any statement in the document. You cannot depend merely on a statement in a document (since you have no way of knowing whether it was written by the legitimate copyright holder). If there is no notice, then you must look elsewhere for this information in any case, but the mere lack of a notice does not mean that "you are not allowed *any* rights to the sources whatsoever". For all you know this software is released under some permissive license. It is of course appropriate to ask WHAT license is intended. Robert Dewar