svn commit: r331510 - in head: share/man/man4 sys/conf sys/dev/vmware/vmci sys/modules/vmware sys/modules/vmware/vmci

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 6:27 PM, Rodney W. Grimes <
> freebsd at pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> 
> > > Author: mp
> > > Date: Sun Mar 25 00:57:00 2018
> > > New Revision: 331510
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/331510
> >
> > These files do not each contain a usable copyright, though
> > they seem to contain SPDX tags that indiate they should contain
> > a BSD 2 clause copyright.
> 
> 
> IANAL but I believe you meant "...they should contain a BSD 2 clause
> *license*". The files should contain a valid copyright.

A valid, but unusable.  As the copyright is it is a full copyright
held by vmware without any rights to be published or redistributed
any any manner by anyone but vmware.

	"Copyright (c) 2018 VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved."

That is a restrictive copyright, allowing no one to publish, or
in our case, redistribute, without a further license of some form.

> The intent of my commit and the author were to use the implied SPDX version
> of the licenses without burdening the source code with the more heavyweight
> license text. Having seen SPDX in the src tree, I believed
> the SPDX-License-Identifier was sufficient. But, to your point, I'm not
> sure I have seen a discussion or a decision on it.

SPDX tags are purely to be treated as "advisory" and in no one imply
or create any license agreement.

> Mark

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org