From owner-svn-src-head@freebsd.org Wed Mar 8 17:06:06 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEC16D01F8E for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2017 17:06:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wlosh@bsdimp.com) Received: from mail-it0-x235.google.com (mail-it0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::235]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AE0891C55 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2017 17:06:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wlosh@bsdimp.com) Received: by mail-it0-x235.google.com with SMTP id h10so106400292ith.1 for ; Wed, 08 Mar 2017 09:06:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bsdimp-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc; bh=+Z45hk08nJ/MDdL9ywZvgWZKN6cEuN50a5Be4FVsyNg=; b=rgQngrmpbXAcz4aoGApL6u4lHnGIbmKdyo/Cr+mIzPDMl+Fle3sIqArUKPCn/HFWfo t/9y2xnflvRMeFb/93hOindUNPUG4BljugU4PLVEuM906M7H4NcFYsn10vcfdVJi1VK+ 5tQwegyTlU3h1ojJyxlvQRXTrJGaJgg11us+UxQKFlRk7/L2nNrQpQb9NSbeqk7MCe/4 Sb8BLNA42CkioTMt2X9WR1XCIBhXzJsGC7KilOrp5ZGYgTwYccV5peBlFFZJt8SrX2s1 dFt/fi40ugdan2RwH73+1G+yhWWImtqvjRvCEk+040CteVYtVNjosYkMdS6tABFQn2Em 715A== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=+Z45hk08nJ/MDdL9ywZvgWZKN6cEuN50a5Be4FVsyNg=; b=YplF9LndA1PuFXDcOnIbx7l3L7Y59dedhy0ElgzvnP17qGPwy2Hrhgy4b3FLYt6/Na WmcsPMV6wytlNNPy0s8Xt7BFsbBQ7hNsFbGLhIWdwTCfrS2a13qNPb218lrufekPq8AE 2NXVgkhJ8JJkI4QLe5V2X+jzkg6CwMQ2O5riVbmn1BTLd8b+FzmToyRzJUYwz3fh2YsP 5vo+4JpfpPoDuvplXc3PWCwroNxUcnGgkEmmDRehYFZa93nC6dpB6UtbarlPduqYbTmh ghXlt2pGsCZqgEn/lXLCF+EPZMhGS1L+rYAIYOQ2dBna8TYVBhj0RUFu44xCTWyqibul MDLQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AMke39muFz92UXcbOhlYtBEmCNv3clErlrQvtI0xp9JHTuzWs5CNCxyTJHOaEOcxdnQwaZHG7qVDJbnSVEJ4rg== X-Received: by 10.36.93.213 with SMTP id w204mr29272695ita.60.1488992748681; Wed, 08 Mar 2017 09:05:48 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: wlosh@bsdimp.com Received: by 10.79.134.129 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Mar 2017 09:05:48 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [69.53.245.200] In-Reply-To: <201703081703.v28H3YUf001602@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <201703081703.v28H3YUf001602@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> From: Warner Losh Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 10:05:48 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: _TXzHIX_nxBYdcOGQ0dhdfqq7BY Message-ID: Subject: Re: svn commit: r314905 - in head/sys: compat/linuxkpi/common/include/linux compat/linuxkpi/common/src conf modules/linuxkpi To: rgrimes@freebsd.org Cc: Hans Petter Selasky , src-committers , "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" , "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 17:06:07 -0000 On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 9:07 AM, Rodney W. Grimes >> wrote: > ... > >> > Though widly seen, often miss understood, this modification technically under the copyright >> > law can be used to assert that you have claimed copyright on the 2014 work more than one >> > year after original poublication, hence the work done in 2014 now falls under different >> > parts of the US copyright law. A prefered form of the above dates would be >> > 2013-2014, 2017. Do not assert copyrights for years in which no new material was >> > published. Publishes is defferent than written. Do not interpret these dates >> > as the dates written. >> > >> > Effect of this type of error: >> > According to the U.S. Copyright Act, if the year date [in the copyright >> > notice] is more than one year later than the year in which publication first >> > occurred, the work is considered to have been published without any notice. >> >> This is incorrect legal advice. Please don't give out legal advice if >> you are not a lawyer. > Which your now doing also ? > >> >> The copyright office's own page says you need only list the first year >> of publication on the list of years[*]. > This is a circ pub, and not the actual laws or trial cases, its good > information, but not complete information. Your reference to > "list of years" appears no place, that I can find, in this > document. "list of" does not appear in this document. Some > lawyers well even recommend, and given we have a VCS, you clearly > mark which parts are copyright for which years. > >> The project's guidance to >> committers for the last 20 years is to do a range of copyright dates. > The projects guidance has wrongly been changed then, as I have > always tried to make sure the A, B, C-D information was applied > correctly. I do have a fairly good understanding of copyright law. > > Can you point to any "published" project guidance on this manner? > >> If you'd believe this is in error, please work with the FreeBSD >> Foundation to get their lawyers to offer updated guidance. > > I was actually already considering asking the Foundation to consult > an attorney and have a published policy on this issue, with examples > and such of when to do which. > >> Warner >> >> [*] https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.pdf > > If your gona site aite a reference to a publication it > is usually best to assert what part of it your referncing. > I had already ready circ03.pdf and several other legal > reference sources before making my assertion(s). > > 2. The year of first publication. If the work is a derivative > work or a compilation incorporating previously published > material, the year date of first publication of the derivative > work or compilation is sufficient. Examples of derivative > works are translations or dramatizations; an example of > a compilation is an anthology. The year may be omitted > when a pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work, with > accompanying textual matter, if any, is reproduced in or > on greeting cards, postcards, stationery, jewelry, dolls, toys, > or useful articles > > I would consider this a dervied work and hence needs an > assertion of a correct date on that derivation. So do many > other attorneys. > > Also that clause 2 is one of the only parts in the circ that > actually comes out of law text. Since neither one of us are attorneys, let's let the Foundation sort this out. I've been keeping track of this for the last 20 years, so I think you're wrong, but don't have the time to tilt this windmill. If you want something changed, please work for that change rather than write long, useless emails. Yes, I'm annoyed. This isn't the first time. I'm done arguing. Warner