From owner-svn-src-all@freebsd.org Sun Mar 25 16:56:11 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A29DF5796A for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2018 16:56:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joerg@bec.de) Received: from relay8-d.mail.gandi.net (relay8-d.mail.gandi.net [217.70.183.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2F0196D63E for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2018 16:56:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joerg@bec.de) X-Originating-IP: 93.205.161.31 Received: from britannica.bec.de (unknown [93.205.161.31]) (Authenticated sender: joerg@bec.de) by relay8-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 591E71BF210 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2018 18:56:05 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 18:55:06 +0200 From: Joerg Sonnenberger 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> References: <20180325163534.GB23474@britannica.bec.de> <201803251646.w2PGkG3Z042004@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201803251646.w2PGkG3Z042004@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.0 (2017-09-02) X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 16:56:11 -0000 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