Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 15:23:01 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Martin Matuska <mm@freebsd.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "<dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org>" <dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org>, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 4b84b4cca472 - main - zfs: fix non-functional mismerges from vendor/openzfs Message-ID: <CANCZdfp2q=vz-Z-aE5JO-Oe7a_RAuFvY20Lk6k4Ftv3GxPMs=A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6b3eca71-95d3-fbcc-f876-106364558cdf@FreeBSD.org> References: <202104260110.13Q1AGM6048050@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <074cf85d-0e00-44ad-1d0e-de4be849a481@FreeBSD.org> <6b3eca71-95d3-fbcc-f876-106364558cdf@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Apr 26, 2021, 2:12 PM Martin Matuska <mm@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi Johh, > > thank you very much for the notice. I am going submit the change > upstream to put this in sync. > > OpenZFS is now "the source" and this file is part of OpenZFS. We may > have local changes but the idea is to push to OpenZFS first, if not > absolutely necessary to have it in our tree first. If I as a copyright > holder write a webpage with open content and others may use my content, > it is unusual for a copyright holder to request changes on a derived > site and keep the original webpage unchanged. > Yea, I think the author just changed the wrong copy of the file to remove all rights reserved, perhaps because he was unaware of the upstream relationship.... Your plan sounds good to me as long as we end back to the author's intent in the fullness of time. Warner Martin > > On 26. 4. 2021 18:37, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 4/25/21 6:10 PM, Martin Matuska wrote: > >> The branch main has been updated by mm: > >> > >> URL: > >> > https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=4b84b4cca472e482bc22d5e5c7928be5a1393c84 > >> > >> commit 4b84b4cca472e482bc22d5e5c7928be5a1393c84 > >> Author: Martin Matuska <mm@FreeBSD.org> > >> AuthorDate: 2021-04-26 01:05:13 +0000 > >> Commit: Martin Matuska <mm@FreeBSD.org> > >> CommitDate: 2021-04-26 01:05:13 +0000 > >> > >> zfs: fix non-functional mismerges from vendor/openzfs > >> - fix copyright in module/os/freebsd/spl/spl_acl.c > > > > Strictly speaking you broke the copyright. > > > > This line was explicitly dropped by the copyright holder: > > > > commit bce7ee9d412b6410e6d799c4a417617cbb148e09 > > Author: Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@FreeBSD.org> > > Date: Wed Oct 28 13:46:11 2020 +0000 > > > > Drop "All rights reserved" from all my stuff. This includes > > Foundation copyrights, approved by emaste@. It does not include > > files which carry other people's copyrights; if you're one > > of those people, feel free to make similar change. > > Reviewed by: emaste, imp, gbe (manpages) > > Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26980 > > > > Notes: > > svn path=/head/; revision=367105 > > > > It is not ethical (and possibly not legal) to undo the copyright > > holder's explicit change. If you want to reduce the diff with > > upstream, then push this local change to remove this line upstream > > instead. > > > > Note that the original commit is in line with a recent-ish change > > in the Project's license policy to discourage the use of the > > "All rights reserved" line as antiquated and obsolete, and that > > it has been dropped from all of the Project's recommended license. > > > >
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