From owner-p4-projects@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 14 13:32:43 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: p4-projects@freebsd.org Delivered-To: p4-projects@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 32767) id 534FB16A404; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:32:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-To: perforce@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: perforce@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3040516A400; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:32:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rdivacky@vlk.vlakno.cz) Received: from vlakno.cz (vlk.vlakno.cz [62.168.28.247]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE23B13C487; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:32:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rdivacky@vlk.vlakno.cz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vlakno.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FEAF8BD5B6; Mon, 14 May 2007 15:32:41 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at vlakno.cz Received: from vlakno.cz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vlk.vlakno.cz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id AhsyI-lSzS3h; Mon, 14 May 2007 15:32:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from vlk.vlakno.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vlakno.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 504448BD58B; Mon, 14 May 2007 15:32:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from rdivacky@localhost) by vlk.vlakno.cz (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l4EDWeip098036; Mon, 14 May 2007 15:32:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rdivacky) Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 15:32:39 +0200 From: Roman Divacky To: Robert Watson Message-ID: <20070514133239.GA97987@freebsd.org> References: <200705120849.l4C8ndlC079878@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070514112457.u8e1g9mgkkw8s080@webmail.leidinger.net> <20070514133058.U24765@fledge.watson.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070514133058.U24765@fledge.watson.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: Alexander Leidinger , Perforce Change Reviews Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 119718 for review X-BeenThere: p4-projects@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: p4 projects tree changes List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 13:32:43 -0000 On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 01:36:01PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2007, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > >Quoting Roman Divacky (from Sat, 12 May 2007 > >08:49:39 GMT): > > > >//depot/projects/soc2007/rdivacky/linux_futex/sys/amd64/linux32/linux32_support.s#3 > >(text+ko) > >>==== > >> > >>@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ > >>/*- > >>- * Copyright (c) 1993 The Regents of the University of California. > >>+ * Copyright (c) 2007 The FreeBSD Project > >> * All rights reserved. > >> * > >> * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without > > > >Would you please do a forced commit to explain the reason for the license > >change? > > I've also replied to this e-mail privately, but since there seems to be a > common confusion regarding this, perhaps a public e-mail is desirable. In > recent years, we have expressed a strong preference against using "The > FreeBSD Project" as a pseudonym copyright holder for specific code > contributions. It does not constitute an assignment, so it doesn't allow > the FreeBSD Project (which is also not an incorporated entity) to change > the license, and it also masks the identity of the true copyright holder > (the author). As we know from the issue of adjusting licenses, which has > come up before, being able to easily identify the true copyright holder is > very important. If assignment is desired, then copyrights can be assigned > to the FreeBSD Foundation, but that requires real-world paperwork and so > needs to be coordinated with the Foundation. Finally, copyright law varies > by country, and many countries do not actually allow assignment of a > copyright, so caution should be applied in even assuming it can be done. yeah, yeah.. this is a WIP. I just submitted what I got from kib@, and we already "fixed" that issue. the "WIP" commit was just because I wanted to generate a new diff against -current