PERFORCE change 119718 for review

[Roman Divacky]

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 01:36:01PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2007, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> 
> >Quoting Roman Divacky <rdivacky at FreeBSD.org> (from Sat, 12 May 2007 
> >08:49:39 GMT):
> >
> >//depot/projects/soc2007/rdivacky/linux_futex/sys/amd64/linux32/linux32_support.s#3 
> >(text+ko)
> >>====
> >>
> >>@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> >>/*-
> >>- * Copyright (c) 1993 The Regents of the University of California.
> >>+ * Copyright (c) 2007 The FreeBSD Project
> >> * All rights reserved.
> >> *
> >> * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
> >
> >Would you please do a forced commit to explain the reason for the license 
> >change?
> 
> I've also replied to this e-mail privately, but since there seems to be a 
> common confusion regarding this, perhaps a public e-mail is desirable.  In 
> recent years, we have expressed a strong preference against using "The 
> FreeBSD Project" as a pseudonym copyright holder for specific code 
> contributions.  It does not constitute an assignment, so it doesn't allow 
> the FreeBSD Project (which is also not an incorporated entity) to change 
> the license, and it also masks the identity of the true copyright holder 
> (the author).  As we know from the issue of adjusting licenses, which has 
> come up before, being able to easily identify the true copyright holder is 
> very important.  If assignment is desired, then copyrights can be assigned 
> to the FreeBSD Foundation, but that requires real-world paperwork and so 
> needs to be coordinated with the Foundation.  Finally, copyright law varies 
> by country, and many countries do not actually allow assignment of a 
> copyright, so caution should be applied in even assuming it can be done.

yeah, yeah.. this is a WIP. I just submitted what I got from kib@, and we 
already "fixed" that issue.

the "WIP" commit was just because I wanted to generate a new diff against -current