svn commit: r361541 - in head: . sys/amd64/conf sys/arm64/conf sys/conf sys/contrib/dev/ice sys/dev/ice sys/modules sys/modules/ice sys/modules/ice_ddp tools/kerneldoc/subsys

[Eric Joyner]

On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 5:39 PM Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
wrote

> That ones a bit iffy in a source released situation, what does it
> mean to "reverse engineer" source code?
>

I don't know. Keep in mind that is the license for that binary in the
directory; the actual
source code for the driver (not in this sys/contrib/dev/ice directory) is
still the 3-clause
BSD license.


> A patent clause?  I do not believe we have any code in the tree
> with an attached patent clause.
>

The text in that LICENSE is actually exactly the same as the one used for
the Wi-Fi firmware blobs
in sys/contrib/iwm and sys/contrib/iwn. The one in iwn has been in there
for 12 years.


> It must be interpretted that an "express licenese" overrides these terms to
> be safe.  It is not clear to me that the contentx of LICENSE file are an
> over riding express license to these statements here as neither is
> explicity
> in the materials covered by the license.
>

I will look at this, though I'm not sure that having the LICENSE file in
the same directory
wouldn't be obvious enough.

- Eric