Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 01 Aug 2013 12:10:48 +0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Justin Hibbits <jhibbits@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r253825 - in head/sys: dev/wi modules modules/wi powerpc/powermac
Message-ID:  <51F9DFC8.4020408@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmo=qBZyZJneeO9hg7UbNzVsY8hV6EBeM66dyFSNfQ1zzDA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201307310113.r6V1DUKY044876@svn.freebsd.org> <CAE-mSOJGqnKjL0=xsSWtoCqT2iK7xHwOGz0TpbNM_f9J2F7AeA@mail.gmail.com> <1375279659.45247.148.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <CAJ-Vmo=qBZyZJneeO9hg7UbNzVsY8hV6EBeM66dyFSNfQ1zzDA@mail.gmail.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 8/1/13 2:09 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 31 July 2013 07:07, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm more concerned about the 201 files in the base that say I have to
>> give Mr. Paul credit in any product documentation and advertising
>> materials (the marketing department is going to love that one, huh?).
That's why apple put out a little brochure with each iphone that has 
MY NAME IN IT!  :-)

Honestly I think it's a pain and we have been trying to reduce it but 
it's not that easy.
you can't take rights away from someone without asking them.
> Welcome to licencing terms hell. This is why there have been
> occasional sprints in "fixing" the licence terms to be more
> consistent.
>
>> How many other such one-off requirements are buried in the license
>> blocks of the source that I had no idea existed and am failing to comply
>> with?
> That's what well written perl scripts to extract / process copyright
> notices are for.
>
>
>
> -adrian
>




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?51F9DFC8.4020408>