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Copyright law is complex, OpenBSD policy is simple - OpenBSD strives to maintain the spirit of the original Berkeley Unix copyrights. @@ -39,7 +41,7 @@ cooperation of the people involved.
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The Berkeley copyright poses no restrictions on private or commercial use of the software and imposes only simple and uniform requirements @@ -96,7 +98,7 @@ components may not be.
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While the overall subject of copyright law is far beyond the scope of this document, some basics are in order. Under the current copyright law, copyrights are implicit in the creation of a new work and reside with @@ -133,7 +135,7 @@ with respect to liability surrounding use of the material.
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Because copyrights arise from the creation of a work, rather than through a registration process, there needs to be a practical way to extend @@ -180,7 +182,7 @@ more restrictive permissions in his future distributions of that work.
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This section attempts to summarize the position of OpenBSD relative to some commonly encountered copyrights. @@ -322,12 +324,12 @@ - +
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