Date: Sat, 19 May 2018 21:05:18 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r333880 - head/sys/kern Message-ID: <CANCZdfrssrsQuwS2Tem-SjmHtZQVOmrdLgzqwyXE-GXqEw5sZA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <fc53911a-c22e-c1c9-337c-0b7a61e24c4e@FreeBSD.org> References: <201805191729.w4JHTvOo032116@repo.freebsd.org> <201805191945.w4JJjMlk017155@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <CANCZdfrMjf8LgwUy4rL53m-XAM9P0fa-cb=cD5%2BV5Br%2Bevussw@mail.gmail.com> <6814.1526761972@critter.freebsd.dk> <CANCZdfo41DjRWBovb0soN1SnfeiQ_n3nxpqOKj_HCnuUSZ-fVA@mail.gmail.com> <637a69d0-fbc9-552b-49fd-9d029eb592f4@FreeBSD.org> <CANCZdfqGJ88mk6CkZjFjPM0j_n%2Bj9tfkR6YtWHewGunzv=%2B61w@mail.gmail.com> <fc53911a-c22e-c1c9-337c-0b7a61e24c4e@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 8:54 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > On 19/05/2018 21:43, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 19, 2018, 8:40 PM Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> >> On 19/05/2018 16:02, Warner Losh wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 2:32 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> >> wrote: >> >>> -------- >>> In message <CANCZdfrMjf8LgwUy4rL53m-XAM9P0fa-cb=cD5+V5Br+evussw@ >>> mail.gmail.com> >>> , Warner Losh writes: >>> >>> >> > Log: >>> >> > Restore the all rights reserved language. >>> >>> "All Rights Reserved" is boilerplate from the old "Buenos Aires" >>> copyright convention, (a purely N+S American affair) and it lost >>> all meaning and relevance for UCB when USA ratified the Berne >>> Convention 60 years ago. >>> >> >> The US ratified the Berne Convention in 1989, which falls in the middle >> of the 4.x BSD releases... Relevant for 4.3, but not 4.4. >> >> >>> The final Buenos Aires signatory joined Berne a couple of decades >>> ago, rendering the convention null and void, and therefore this >>> boilerplate has no meaning or relevance for anybody. >>> >> >> Right, I get that. However, someone removed it. Even though it's useless >> at this point, I don't believe we can remove it. >> >> For the record, and with the usual disclaimer that I am *not* a lawyer ... >> >> I attended a talk from a lawyer from Google that explained adding the >> "All Rights Reserved" line didn't mean what it intended to mean previously >> (or much at all) but that removing it was intended as having a meaning. In >> sum, and while I didn't completely grasp the issue is not clear all lawyers >> would agree on removing the line. >> >> For old code it is what is, but perhaps the effort should be done for new >> code, starting here: >> >> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/ >> committers-guide/pref-license.html >> > > > Looks like i missed one. I'll fix it. > > While updating documentation, the SPDX guys also point to an outdated > version: > > https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD.html > Can you get this updated? > https://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html > Not sure where this file comes from... With the additional mistake that they added the Documentation Project > disclaimer to the license: > > "The views and conclusions contained in the software and documentation > are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing > official policies, either expressed or implied, of the FreeBSD Project." > Can you get that fixed? Warner
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