Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 07:56:03 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>, imp@freebsd.org, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD BSD License 3 -> 2 Clause History Message-ID: <80E4F9C9-08E0-4243-A471-3DEC4F1F95CF@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <57150.1419930741@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <54a1ec2a.853c460a.1d8a.2b34SMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING@mx.google.com> <CAD2Ti2-=cUmABeDMFpuSvHp_h0PUXZTF6J-2TdiKi%2BnsRfskUA@mail.gmail.com> <57150.1419930741@critter.freebsd.dk>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] > On Dec 30, 2014, at 2:12 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > > -------- > In message <CAD2Ti2-=cUmABeDMFpuSvHp_h0PUXZTF6J-2TdiKi+nsRfskUA@mail.gmail.com> > , grarpamp writes: > >> The change in question, from 3 to 2 clause, is here in Dec 1999: >> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/COPYRIGHT?r1=50978&r2=124033 >> >> Next step is to ask imp/phk, and search the FreeBSD lists around >> that time for context as to why. > > I think you are reading more into that commit than it contains: > It merely asserted "Copyright of Compilation" over FreeBSD. > > The compilation copyright does not 'infect' the copyrights of all > the individual works it is composed of, it only protects, as for > instance the US copyright law says: > > 1) The collection and assembly of pre-existing material, facts, or data; > > 2) The selection, coordination, or arrangement of those materials; and > > 3) The creation, by virtue of the particular selection, > coordination, or arrangement of an original work of authorship. > > As I remember this event, it was more about being able to defend > the name and trademark FreeBSD than anything else, and it happened > as response to the trademark finally getting back to the project > after the WC/IX/WR saga. > > However, I should caution that I was out of core for a couple of years > when this finally transpired, so I was not privy to core@'s deliberationso > > Neither the core monthly or project quarterly reports mention it. I was in core at the time, and it was about that time we started to cleanup the licenses in general. The two-term COPYRIGHT was changed to reflect the most-favored license in the tree, and the one that we wanted people to start using. Around the same time, there were a number of other license changes after individual authors were contacted about removing the other clauses. It had less to do with the trademark issues, though that was also added to the COPYRIGHT file around the same time. It was about this time that GPL’d programs started disappearing from the tree as well. It has been a long progress, but we’re finally getting close to kicking out gcc, binutils and maybe gdb, while still maintaining a full, integrated build either with the new clang or an external toolchain (though the latter still needs a few more pieces to fall into place). Warner [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUor0DAAoJEGwc0Sh9sBEAJaYP/32BxSyBe6uARlNrjor0VZk+ Fdlljk/SU7k2sauMoRDtuiN6kelG0Doy51tUOMX6IKUEEGEgOjHzbU5bBI/BgkOd qEcXqoKzdrPSwdVo9B01jgY7hv9vVij4ORxaJsVvRjL5ggGrLYH1H/bn8p6wOTPG XEME9H90mHEd3KmwqhhltAF4s8rOnenD70dv9btJzePF93IvpdRUttiW5UhW+0I6 b/BqwRcqjdcdL9vvTcfSGNzBWBCK+FpfhxvAOsh1aSBERxjlMHI2zQdzTjpnpWm4 is5iSm8tdiqNFzvD93C6YcxwLTvelEqfIczBVAcXhFpRK56hD3xgCSVSVAA4TzYr yP8YI83oDlPt4GJ719THB13vhnxCVxoXPyFzVw18FDTgXK2dY/vJfu3ox4RKNQJY FqK1ZjKDkYWnzZxjKoJeQac34Asgx9vvIFiwa4cD4GkHmeoudLaWDWF0cUdlXpyU PyfKEVR5TDv0xegY/Ypv76MpT4RUg5DS+/ncgzdDEFcU6QF0RLgVMVFMZdG/Cctx RgM+NaRMaURr0J4Oxg+aC39LzzSisJjIRvF4SKEwFxVv8/8W/3zACUm48SDCujZs Gf539r5ubofNLyN/ZKX8vMDcCauelW2CI6CJNyf6TiQsq6gUEDvmmQ+/6R/tXdKr jUuRC0i50i7k8uFnTlKj =ebVg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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