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Copyright law is complex, OpenBSD policy is simple - OpenBSD strives to provide code that can be freely used, copied, modified, and distributed @@ -44,7 +43,7 @@ cooperation of the people involved.
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The original Berkeley copyright poses no restrictions on private or commercial use of the software and imposes only simple and uniform requirements @@ -103,7 +102,7 @@ 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 @@ -153,7 +152,7 @@ rights to use, copy, modify, distribute, and license the work.
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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 @@ -171,7 +170,7 @@
Note that a license is not to be confused with a copyright transfer. -While a tranfer would give the new copyright holder exclusive +While a transfer would give the new copyright holder exclusive rights to use the code and take these rights away from the author, a license typically grants additional people non-exclusive rights to use the code, while the authors retain all their rights. @@ -192,7 +191,7 @@ Again, an important point to note is that the release and conditions can only apply to the portion of the work that was originated by the copyright -holder - the holder of a copyright on a derivative work can neither +holder—the holder of a copyright on a derivative work can neither grant additional permissions for use of the original work, nor impose more restrictive conditions for use of that work.
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This section attempts to summarize the position of OpenBSD relative to some commonly encountered copyrights. @@ -250,7 +249,7 @@ was freed by Caldera, Inc. on 23 January 2002 and is now available under a 4-term BSD-style license. As a result, it would theoretically be possible to incorporate original -Unix code into OpenBSD. However, that code is now so old that it doesn't +Unix code into OpenBSD. However, that code is now so old that it does not satisfy today's interface and quality standards.
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-While material that is truly entered into the "Public Domain" can be +While material that is truly entered into the "public domain" can be included in OpenBSD, review is required on a case by case basis. Frequently the "public domain" assertion is made by someone who does -not really hold all rights under Copyright law to grant that status or +not really hold all rights under copyright law to grant that status or there are a variety of conditions imposed on use. For a work to be -truly in the "Public Domain" all rights are abandoned and the material +truly in the "public domain" all rights are abandoned and the material is offered without restrictions.
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