svn commit: r253825 - in head/sys: dev/wi modules modules/wi powerpc/powermac

Julian Elischer julian at freebsd.org
Thu Aug 1 04:11:00 UTC 2013


On 8/1/13 2:09 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 31 July 2013 07:07, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm more concerned about the 201 files in the base that say I have to
>> give Mr. Paul credit in any product documentation and advertising
>> materials (the marketing department is going to love that one, huh?).
That's why apple put out a little brochure with each iphone that has 
MY NAME IN IT!  :-)

Honestly I think it's a pain and we have been trying to reduce it but 
it's not that easy.
you can't take rights away from someone without asking them.
> Welcome to licencing terms hell. This is why there have been
> occasional sprints in "fixing" the licence terms to be more
> consistent.
>
>> How many other such one-off requirements are buried in the license
>> blocks of the source that I had no idea existed and am failing to comply
>> with?
> That's what well written perl scripts to extract / process copyright
> notices are for.
>
>
>
> -adrian
>



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