svn commit: r333880 - head/sys/kern

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 8:54 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg at freebsd.org> wrote:

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> On 19/05/2018 21:43, Warner Losh wrote:
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> On Sat, May 19, 2018, 8:40 PM Pedro Giffuni <pfg at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> On 19/05/2018 16:02, Warner Losh wrote:
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>> On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 2:32 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
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>>> In message <CANCZdfrMjf8LgwUy4rL53m-XAM9P0fa-cb=cD5+V5Br+evussw@
>>> mail.gmail.com>
>>> , Warner Losh writes:
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>>> >> > Log:
>>> >> >   Restore the all rights reserved language.
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>>> "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.
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>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>> Right, I get that. However, someone removed it. Even though it's useless
>> at this point, I don't believe we can remove it.
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>> For the record, and with the usual disclaimer that I am *not* a lawyer ...
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>> I attended a talk from a lawyer from Google that explained adding the
>> "All Rights Reserved" line didn't mean what it intended to mean previously
>> (or much at all) but that removing it was intended as having a meaning. In
>> sum, and while I didn't completely grasp the issue is not clear all lawyers
>> would agree on removing the line.
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>> For old code it is what is, but perhaps the effort should be done for new
>> code, starting here:
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>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/
>> committers-guide/pref-license.html
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> Looks like i missed one. I'll fix it.
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> While updating documentation, the SPDX guys also point to an outdated
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> https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD.html
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Can you get this updated?


> https://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html
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Not sure where this file comes from...

 With the additional mistake that they added the Documentation Project
> disclaimer to the license:
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>  "The views and conclusions contained in the software and documentation
> are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing
> official policies, either expressed or implied, of the FreeBSD Project."
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Can you get that fixed?

Warner