Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 09:15:16 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r327086 - head/sys/dev/lmc Message-ID: <CANCZdfrDZbyr51NAOThzTO%2BVwWJp8NPDAgSk8HBAndBEQdeocA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <02a7407a-0445-e503-9279-e893f53f8ef0@FreeBSD.org> References: <201712221715.vBMHF27m046894@repo.freebsd.org> <20180103220942.GC95035@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> <CANCZdfrfRitzWHEn7BtiDC=4bfwrHUGg6N9%2Bq%2Ba4eFUY6uzYdw@mail.gmail.com> <CANCZdfqFQL78Frmzu7vsT=ZdN-f8-mxje0LSor3whFR8XzhxgA@mail.gmail.com> <CANCZdfrQEm5V7Uq2E9ie52bmg6kg%2BjotX=95BYf7HS7hQjDYog@mail.gmail.com> <02a7407a-0445-e503-9279-e893f53f8ef0@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 4:41 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > On 03/01/2018 18:03, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > On Jan 3, 2018 3:17 PM, "Brooks Davis" <brooks@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 05:15:02PM +0000, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > Author: pfg > > Date: Fri Dec 22 17:15:02 2017 > > New Revision: 327086 > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/327086 > > > > Log: > > SPDX: Reverse License ID tags from the lmc driver. > > > > While the BSD-2-Clause license is there, the GPLv2 is also present. > > I am unsure of the implications of having both licenses as they are > here. > > > > I'll just leave it untagged and open for interpretation. > > Deleting lmc(4) is probably the appropriate fix. You can buy the things > on e-bay, but they look to be 32-bit PCI devices and it seems unlikely > they are in use on systems that will run FreeBSD 12. I've updated the > wiki with a note to this effect. > > > Which wiki? > > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/GPLinBase > Ah, I was talking about deprecation, which we're really bad at communicating. The ad-hoc methods we've used aren't so easy for users to follow. I'll send a followup on that in a new thread. Warner > > I'd like to formalize things a little. > > > Either the license is very naively stated or the device should have been > added in the contrib/gnu branches. > I suspect the former but my attempts to contact the author were > unsuccessful so it is probably better to just drop it. >
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