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Date:      Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:39:25 -0800
From:      "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@gmail.com>
To:        "Ceri Davies" <ceri@submonkey.net>, "Kip Macy" <kmacy@freebsd.org>,  src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sun4v/include asm.h src/sys/sun4v/sun4v hcall.S interrupt.S support.S t1_copy.S
Message-ID:  <b1fa29170611231139j14b9a3d3kd5b95c55a61e9605@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061123145304.GF973@submonkey.net>
References:  <200611230225.kAN2PGYi043437@repoman.freebsd.org> <20061123145304.GF973@submonkey.net>

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Interfaces aren't copyrightable.

 -Kip

On 11/23/06, Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 02:25:16AM +0000, Kip Macy wrote:
> > kmacy       2006-11-23 02:25:16 UTC
> >
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/sun4v/include    asm.h
> >     sys/sun4v/sun4v      hcall.S interrupt.S support.S t1_copy.S
> >   Log:
> >   In contrast to the non-obvious and flexible nature of the optimized
> bcopy in t1_copy.S (which
> >   shall retain its CDDL copyright, and thus likely be removed from
> GENERIC) I have removed the CDDL
> >   from hcall.S because there is zero flexibility in the implementation
> of hypercalls as they derive
> >   directly from the hypervisor interface which is not copyrighted
> (ironically the source for the
> >   hypervisor itself is BSD licensed).
> >
> >   It is best to start any bikeshed about this as soon as possible.
>
> OK, I'll bite.
>
> >   Discussed with: bsdimp
>
> And Sun?
>
> Ceri
> --
> That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
>                                                   -- Moliere
>
>
>



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