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Date:      Fri, 27 Dec 2019 22:34:21 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>,  svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r356142 - in head/sys: dev/ofw sys
Message-ID:  <CANCZdfr%2BY=4S2UKTs40k5dMHx3Z4dHiu0Ur--nzgLORUzdsNJA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201912280527.xBS5R8fk041737@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <62fe2914-91fd-96ba-5953-57fa43dfe775@FreeBSD.org> <201912280527.xBS5R8fk041737@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 10:27 PM Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
wrote:

>
> > > You can choose your own license for original work, sure, but
> obliterating
> > > parts of an existing license by applying a second license which is in
> > > conflict is probably a poor idea.
> >
> >
> > We don't do that at all: pretty clearly there is no conflict between
> > both licenses as you can comply with both.
>
> The only way to comply with both is to comply with the full 4
> clause license.  Hense the 2 clause is pointless in being there
> and can never apply until all 4 clause authors agree to change
> to 2 clause.
>


Until such time as Jeff finishes rewriting the files, then we just nerf the
4 clause one as no longer relevant since it describes no code in the file
anymore...

We've done exactly the thing Jeff did hundreds if not thousands of times
already in the project in code spanning at least the last 25 or so
years...  Not sure why it's coming up now over an annotation that has a
specific meaning that's clear and well defined.

Warner



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