Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 11:24:42 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org> Cc: Mark Peek <mp@freebsd.org>, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org>, src-committers <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: <CANCZdfr1a4DgPwQ3CxkF4p6PeV-4N3hYceuY1f8Zqrry_CUCrA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201803251642.w2PGgkcx041969@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <CAGGgMJeh4_eSvjW68JnYPy4-CgH4qVqMJJHmcu0ncQ1xd0ke3g@mail.gmail.com> <201803251642.w2PGgkcx041969@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 10:42 AM, Rodney W. Grimes < freebsd@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > Did VMWare provide the files with the dual license text in them? > Or did they provide files with SPDX tags in them? > Or ? > Does VMWare have these files published some place, with terms of > use and such? VMWare provided the files exactly as Mark committed them. They were provided by someone from VMware to our code review system. The SPDX stuff is fine. there's nothing to get upset out here: they are just as much a legal license as if the license had been included inline. It's widespread practice in the industry dating back to the 80's when DEC had an indirection notice in their Ultrix source code. In fact, you can find examples of that going back to the early 70's, though we were under a different copyright regime. Warner
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