git: 686cf5468c4a - main - flex: Regen bootstrap files

[Jung-uk Kim]

On 21. 4. 20., Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> On 21. 4. 20., Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>>>> The branch main has been updated by jkim:
>>>>
>>>> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=686cf5468c4a85c2a6385cdbab2383900876a41d
>>>>
>>>> commit 686cf5468c4a85c2a6385cdbab2383900876a41d
>>>> Author:     Jung-uk Kim <jkim at FreeBSD.org>
>>>> AuthorDate: 2021-04-19 18:20:51 +0000
>>>> Commit:     Jung-uk Kim <jkim at FreeBSD.org>
>>>> CommitDate: 2021-04-19 18:20:51 +0000
>>>>
>>>>     flex: Regen bootstrap files
>>>>     
>>>>     This also partially reverts r326025 (8a16b7a18f5d).  I do not see any
>>>>     point of adding SPDX tag in generated file.
>>>
>>> The SPDX identifies the copyright that follows it, so please put this back.
>>
>> It is a generated file.  If you really think it is necessary, you need
>> to patch its source, i.e., contrib/flex/src/parse.y, and regen the file.
> 
> Just because it is a generated file does not change the fact that
> its contents are copyrighted.  Leaving the copyright out at best
> defaults to Bern convention, so the fact of the mater is the contents
> is copyrighted, and it is best to explicitly state that it is.

Of course, it is copyrighted.  My point was parse.y should have been
patched, not the generated file, if necessary.

>> However, I don't see much sense in automatically adding BSD license in
>> every generated file in the first place.  In fact, I think it should not
>> appear on generated file at all.  It may say something along the line of
>> "generated by flex" instead but IANAL.
> 
> Well, someone before you did see since in it, and hence put that SPDX in it.

Let me put it in another way.  Do we really want to tag contrib code?

Jung-uk Kim