Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 18:55:06 +0200 From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@bec.de> To: svn-src-all@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: <20180325165506.GA16840@britannica.bec.de> In-Reply-To: <201803251646.w2PGkG3Z042004@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <20180325163534.GB23474@britannica.bec.de> <201803251646.w2PGkG3Z042004@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 09:46:16AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 09:03:20AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > Kirk would have to back me up on this, but my understanding of the > > > decisions that the UCB Regents legal staff came to was that each > > > file should have a complete copyright and license clause and any > > > thing less causes problems because of "seprability", and "alterability" > > > because of seperate files. > > > > Are you talking about a decision made before the USA joined the rest of > > the civilised world as signee of the Berne Convention? > > The copyright > > notice was certainly required at the time. A full license clause is > > nicer for "stealing" things, but certainly not required. > > With or without application of Berne Convention, without a license > you (us, FreeBSD project, foundation) have no rights to publish > (redistribute) the work, unless that copyright is a of the form > that it would "placed in the public domain" the work. That doesn't mean that every file has to include such a license tag. Neither does it have to carry a copyright note nowadays, but that used to be different. Joerg
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