Date: Sat, 19 May 2018 21:47:26 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: rgrimes@freebsd.org, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r333880 - head/sys/kern Message-ID: <7156.1526766446@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <201805192056.w4JKumb8017438@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <201805192056.w4JKumb8017438@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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-------- In message <201805192056.w4JKumb8017438@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>, "Rodney W= . Grimes" writes: >> -------- >> In message <CANCZdfrMjf8LgwUy4rL53m-XAM9P0fa-cb=3DcD5+V5Br+evussw@mail.= gmail.com> >> , Warner Losh writes: >> = >> >> > Log: >> >> > Restore the all rights reserved language. >> = >> "All Rights Reserved" is boilerplate from the old "Buenos Aires" > >I believe that boilerplate is the wrong term here, it was a >requirement of that convention to use this phrase if you wanted >to be protected by the Buenos Aires convention. The term "boilerplate" refers to technical and regulatory information all boilers were required to have affixed to them by law, when lawmakers tried to stem the carnage boiler-explosions caused. The labelling requirement turned into a machinist joke, where the old hand cermoneously would point out the boilerplate to the new man and tell him "That one prevents explosions." Largely because of that joke, the term "boilerplate" became synonymous with mandatory information which is present to satisfy regulations & lawyers, but doesn't serve any (other) useful purpose. So yes, boilerplate is exactly what it is. -- = Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe = Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence= .
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