Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 18:35:34 +0200 From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@bec.de> To: rgrimes@freebsd.org Cc: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org>, Mark Peek <mp@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r331510 - in head: share/man/man4 sys/conf sys/dev/vmware/vmci sys/modules/vmware sys/modules/vmware/vmci Message-ID: <20180325163534.GB23474@britannica.bec.de> In-Reply-To: <201803251603.w2PG3KLQ041797@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <8dffed54-3319-d826-5ec1-fd80155a3921@FreeBSD.org> <201803251603.w2PG3KLQ041797@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 09:03:20AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > Kirk would have to back me up on this, but my understanding of the > decisions that the UCB Regents legal staff came to was that each > file should have a complete copyright and license clause and any > thing less causes problems because of "seprability", and "alterability" > because of seperate files. Are you talking about a decision made before the USA joined the rest of the civilised world as signee of the Berne Convention? The copyright notice was certainly required at the time. A full license clause is nicer for "stealing" things, but certainly not required. Joerg
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