svn commit: r244959 - user/crees/rclint

[Joel Dahl]

On 03-01-2013  9:27, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 2 Jan 2013 23:42, "Eitan Adler" <eadler at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 2 January 2013 11:47, Chris Rees <crees at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > Author: crees (ports committer)
> > > Date: Wed Jan  2 16:47:23 2013
> > > New Revision: 244959
> > > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/244959
> > >
> > > Log:
> > >   Copyrights can't be owned by The FreeBSD Project apparently
> >
> > We actually have this issue in a few places.  One example:
> > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/COPYRIGHT?view=co
> >
> > In addition some files claim copyright by the FreeBSD foundation but
> > there have been no copyright assignments:
> > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/CHANGES?view=co
> >
> > There is a separate issue of copyrights in src/ having subtly distinct
> > copyrights (- vs * for the bullets).
> >
> > This is a ripe project for $someone to work on: finding the subtle
> > differences and making them conform to a single standard.  Note that
> > this would likely require the copyright owner(s) to agree to the
> > change.
> 
> I think a higher priority than bullet format is weeding out the last of the
> "advertising clauses".

I've done multiple sweeps over the tree in the past. Just a few thoughts:

* The NetBSD Foundation switched from a 4-clause to a 2-clause license back
in 2008. Identify and make sure all TNF licensed files in our tree have the
new 2-clause license. They encourage third parties to change the license on
any files which have a 4-clause license contributed to the NetBSD Foundation
to a 2-clause license. [1]

* We have lots of files with UC Berkeley copyrights in the tree. Some of them
may still have the advertising clause, but we can safely remove it. [2]

[1] http://www.netbsd.org/about/redistribution.html
[2] ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change

-- 
Joel