Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:51:05 -0800 From: "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@gmail.com> To: "Ceri Davies" <ceri@submonkey.net>, "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@gmail.com>, "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: <b1fa29170611231151g4f747cc8n89610e5c38e37207@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20061123194238.GA5219@submonkey.net> References: <200611230225.kAN2PGYi043437@repoman.freebsd.org> <20061123145304.GF973@submonkey.net> <b1fa29170611231139j14b9a3d3kd5b95c55a61e9605@mail.gmail.com> <20061123194238.GA5219@submonkey.net>
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Tell whom? My engineering contact knows. Should I inform Sun legal? In my
experience, the legal department's number one concern is CYA, not Sun or the
community.
-Kip
On 11/23/06, Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 11:39:25AM -0800, Kip Macy wrote:
> >
> > 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?
>
> > Interfaces aren't copyrightable.
>
> I'm sure I agree, but it would be polite if nothing else to actually
> tell them rather than let them find out.
>
> Ceri
> --
> That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
> -- Moliere
>
>
>
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