svn commit: r192800 - in head/sys: cddl/compat/opensolaris/kern cddl/compat/opensolaris/sys cddl/contrib/opensolaris/common/acl cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs cddl/contrib/opensolaris/u...

[Tom Evans]

On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 15:09 -0500, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 03:24:05PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> > 2009/5/26 Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org>:
> > > On Tue, 26 May 2009, Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote:
> > >
> > >> +/*-
> > >> + * Copyright (c) 2008, 2009 Edward Tomasz Napiera??a <trasz at FreeBSD.org>
> > >> + * All rights reserved.
> > >> + *
> > >> + * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
> > >> + * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
> > >> + * are met:
> > >> + * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
> > >> + * ?? ??notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
> > >> + * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
> > >> + * ?? ??notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
> > >> + * ?? ??documentation and/or other materials provided with the
> > >> distribution.
> > >> + *
> > >> + * ALTHOUGH THIS SOFTWARE IS MADE OF WIN AND SCIENCE, IT IS PROVIDED BY
> > >> THE
> > >
> > > Cute though this BSD license variation is, I'm pretty sure it's not on the
> > > approved license list. ??Sticking to the standard license templates
> > > potentially saves significant trouble later -- especially when people
> > 
> > Hmm, I'm sure that there exists some SVN magic which would allow
> > authors to enter something
> > 
> > $BSDL2 Charlie Root 2008,2009$
> > 
> > and it expands to a perfect boilerplate on checkout :)
> 
> Such a change would result in a repository filled without license blocks.
> This might be appropriate in a corporate setting, but isn't worth
> considering here since copies of the repo would lack correct
> attributions.
> 
> -- Brooks

It could also be written as a pre-commit hook, rather than as a property
expansion, which would assuage those concerns. 

Of course you then get a whole bunch of other concerns, like what is
checked by the committer is not what is actually checked in.

Cheers

Tom