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Date:      Tue, 16 May 2017 17:58:02 -0700
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: UC Berkeley 4-clause copyright
Message-ID:  <20170517005802.GB42906@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20170517005524.GA42906@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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In looking at NetBSD/OpenBSD's math_private.h, it seems the
content of mathimpl.h have been tacked onto it.

--
steve

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 05:55:24PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> I don't have a commit bit.  I just checked OpenBSD/NetBSD.
> They use a 3-clause license.
> 
> -- 
> steve
> 
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 06:51:30PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> > If it says that it's copyright those people, that's an issue. If it
> > doesn't then there's no issue. Doesn't look like it does. If you'd
> > like, I can look at it an DTRT if you're unsure.
> > 
> > Warner
> > 
> > On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 6:48 PM, Steve Kargl
> > <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 06:37:56PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> > >> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Steve Kargl
> > >> <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> > >> > The files in lib/msun/bsdsrc contain the 4-clause UC Berkeley
> > >> > Copyright.  Supposedly UCB no longer enforces clause 3.  Can
> > >> > clause 3 be removed?
> > >> >
> > >> Yes. Remove it. It's convention these days to also renumber. It was
> > >> likely missed.
> > >>
> > >> Are there other copyright holders? If so, that would be why I didn't
> > >> remove it at the time years ago.... But I may have missed them too.
> > >>
> > >
> > > lib/msun/b_log.c and lib/msun/mathimpl.h have appear to have
> > > onlu UCB in file (other than bde and das in the RCS string).
> > >
> > > lib/msun/b_tgamma.c has a standard 4-clause BSD license with
> > > the years 1992 and 1993 listed.  But, later in the file there
> > > is the comment
> > >
> > > /*
> > >  * This code by P. McIlroy, Oct 1992;
> > >  *
> > >  * The financial support of UUNET Communications Services is greatfully
> > >  * acknowledged.
> > >  */
> > >
> > > IANAL, so I don't know if this triggers the "and its contributors."
> > > portion of clause 3.
> > >
> > > lib/msun/b_exp.c has a standard 4-clause BSD license with the
> > > years 1985 and 1993 listed.  Later in the file is KC Ng's ChangeLog
> > > like annotation
> > >
> > > /* EXP(X)
> > >  * RETURN THE EXPONENTIAL OF X
> > >  * DOUBLE PRECISION (IEEE 53 bits, VAX D FORMAT 56 BITS)
> > >  * CODED IN C BY K.C. NG, 1/19/85;
> > >  * REVISED BY K.C. NG on 2/6/85, 2/15/85, 3/7/85, 3/24/85, 4/16/85, 6/14/86.
> > >
> > > Again, IANAL.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Steve
> > > 20170425 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWUpyCsUKR4
> > > 20161221 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbCHE-hONow
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> -- 
> Steve
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> 20161221 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbCHE-hONow
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Steve
20170425 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWUpyCsUKR4
20161221 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbCHE-hONow



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