Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 04:49:45 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> To: Mark Peek <mp@freebsd.org> Cc: rgrimes@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@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: <201803251149.w2PBnj3R041039@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <CAGGgMJcJfBPPYc96JZ9vTVgjnn75raf1gjWxqYGmJhfKim6pfQ@mail.gmail.com>
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> On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 6:27 PM, Rodney W. Grimes < > freebsd@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > > Author: mp > > > Date: Sun Mar 25 00:57:00 2018 > > > New Revision: 331510 > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/331510 > > > > These files do not each contain a usable copyright, though > > they seem to contain SPDX tags that indiate they should contain > > a BSD 2 clause copyright. > > > IANAL but I believe you meant "...they should contain a BSD 2 clause > *license*". The files should contain a valid copyright. A valid, but unusable. As the copyright is it is a full copyright held by vmware without any rights to be published or redistributed any any manner by anyone but vmware. "Copyright (c) 2018 VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved." That is a restrictive copyright, allowing no one to publish, or in our case, redistribute, without a further license of some form. > The intent of my commit and the author were to use the implied SPDX version > of the licenses without burdening the source code with the more heavyweight > license text. Having seen SPDX in the src tree, I believed > the SPDX-License-Identifier was sufficient. But, to your point, I'm not > sure I have seen a discussion or a decision on it. SPDX tags are purely to be treated as "advisory" and in no one imply or create any license agreement. > Mark -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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