So, why bother copyrighting these kinds of files at all? Why not simply release them into the public domain? On the face of it, it is absurd to think that Sun has a copyright on my hosts or aliases files simply because they provided an virtually empty file with that name in the distribution...
-John Stephen Hahn wrote: > * Peter Memishian <peter.memishian at sun.com> [2007-02-14 22:28]: >> It's tragic enough that /etc/nsswitch.conf has a 25 line >> CDDL+copyright at the top. > > I asked Legal for a "shorter form" for configuration files (and files > that go over the wire a lot, like CSS and XML for opensolaris.org). > I'll start a new thread later today (-code) and we can examine the > shorter block and its applicability. > > - Stephen >
