svn commit: r333880 - head/sys/kern

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 2:32 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at 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.

It is not just that the US ratified in 1989 thats important, it is
actually more important that the *last* member of the Buenos Aires
convention adopted Berne in 2000, until then if you wanted protection,
in say Nicaragua, you would need this phrase in your work to be
protected by those who are members of Buenos Aires, but not Berne.

> > 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.

I fully agree with that.

There may however be an issue of ever removing it from works first published
between 1989 and 2000, though I do not believe that to be the case, it is
certainly a grey area.

> Warner

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org