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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Tony Sanders <sa...@bsdi.com> on 1995/09/15 23:09:39 UTC

Re: New license

Paul Richards writes:
> I'm not going to change the license and copyright on code that
> clearly isn't mine and I've got no idea who did what. For the NCSA
> code, either it stays in the public domain and any Apache patches
> go into the public domain with it,
Why is that?  If you put the Apache copyright on it then it's
copyrighted.  The fact that there is a varient in the public domain
doesn't invalidate the copyright on the published work that is
claiming a copyright (I'm not a lawyer but I believe this is so).