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Because copyright arises from the creation of a work and not the text or a registration process, removing or altering a copyright notice or ! associated release terms has no bearing on the existance of the copyright, rather all that is accomplished to whatever rights the person making the modifications had to use the material in the first place. Likewise, adding terms and conditions in conflict with the original terms and conditions ! does not supercede them, rather it casts doubts on the rights of the person making the amendments to use the material and creates confusion as to whether anyone can use amended version or derivatives thereof.
--- 114,124 ----Because copyright arises from the creation of a work and not the text or a registration process, removing or altering a copyright notice or ! associated release terms has no bearing on the existence of the copyright, rather all that is accomplished to whatever rights the person making the modifications had to use the material in the first place. Likewise, adding terms and conditions in conflict with the original terms and conditions ! does not supersede them, rather it casts doubts on the rights of the person making the amendments to use the material and creates confusion as to whether anyone can use amended version or derivatives thereof.
*************** *** 151,157 **** While AT&T holds the copyrights to much "unix" code and documentation, OpenBSD is based largely on Berkeley (BSD) distributions that contain only material known to be free of AT&T copyrights, or material to which ! AT&T has abandoned it's copyright or included licensing terms similar to the Berkeley terms. No material subject to restrictive AT&T copyrights can be included in OpenBSD. --- 151,157 ---- While AT&T holds the copyrights to much "unix" code and documentation, OpenBSD is based largely on Berkeley (BSD) distributions that contain only material known to be free of AT&T copyrights, or material to which ! AT&T has abandoned its copyright or included licensing terms similar to the Berkeley terms. No material subject to restrictive AT&T copyrights can be included in OpenBSD. *************** *** 255,261 ****