Date: Sat, 19 May 2018 20:48:43 -0700 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org>, 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: <CAF6rxgnaKP=O9G8q4qkfH6HD2EyPC9oGzMo6SGP6BcfyeYaU2A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrssrsQuwS2Tem-SjmHtZQVOmrdLgzqwyXE-GXqEw5sZA@mail.gmail.com> 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> <CANCZdfrssrsQuwS2Tem-SjmHtZQVOmrdLgzqwyXE-GXqEw5sZA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 19 May 2018 at 20:05, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > > 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... Sending freebsd-license.xml Transmitting file data .done Committing transaction... Committed revision 51670. >> 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? You want me to remove the disclaimer as well? -- Eitan Adler
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