Why SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD?
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Oct 15 10:50:51 UTC 2018
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In message <8a56c350-fc18-aee1-f392-f0e52c629290 at embedded-brains.de>, Sebastian
Huber writes:
>> I could submit a file (--> I'm the author) but assign the copyright to
>> the FreeBSD Foundation (--> TFF is the copyright holder).
>
>How do you know that such a contract exists if you only look at the file?
As a user licensing the code under the BSD2 copyright, that does
not concern you in any way, unless you have reason to suspect that
the contract does not exist and the license therefore may be
fraudulent.
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