Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 09:46:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> To: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@bec.de> Cc: rgrimes@freebsd.org, 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: <201803251646.w2PGkG3Z042004@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20180325163534.GB23474@britannica.bec.de>
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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. With or without application of Berne Convention, without a license you (us, FreeBSD project, foundation) have no rights to publish (redistribute) the work, unless that copyright is a of the form that it would "placed in the public domain" the work. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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