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

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> 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.

My complaint was ABOUT the change to parse.y that REMOVED the SPDX
tag.  This is NOT a generated file, it IS the right place to put the SPDX,
immediatly before the copyright it refers to.

> >> 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?

Now that is a seperate discussion, but again, someone did infact decide
to do this in the past.  I am simply asking that the tag be put back.

> Jung-uk Kim
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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org