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.. videodev.h


 > > There is indeed no license in this file.
 >
 > And this fact makes it a little bit hard to import into FreeBSD, at
 > least for a person like me with not so much knowledge about
 > copyright/license stuff. Someone out there (@FreeBSD.org) who is
 > willing to put some official weight into this issue?


As I mentioned before, I have emails from the authors of this file
to the effect that as an API definition they believe it is
uncopyrightable, and in fact that they specifically want no
copyright on it so that other people can use it. (e.g. us).


julian