svn commit: r192800 - in head/sys: cddl/compat/opensolaris/kern cddl/compat/opensolaris/sys cddl/contrib/opensolaris/common/acl cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs cddl/contrib/opensolaris/u...

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Wed May 27 00:48:25 UTC 2009


In message: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905262114090.23177 at fledge.watson.org>
            Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> writes:
: 
: On Tue, 26 May 2009, Brooks Davis wrote:
: 
: >>> Cute though this BSD license variation is, I'm pretty sure it's not on the 
: >>> approved license list. ??Sticking to the standard license templates 
: >>> potentially saves significant trouble later -- especially when people
: >>
: >> Hmm, I'm sure that there exists some SVN magic which would allow authors to 
: >> enter something
: >>
: >> $BSDL2 Charlie Root 2008,2009$
: >>
: >> and it expands to a perfect boilerplate on checkout :)
: >
: > Such a change would result in a repository filled without license blocks. 
: > This might be appropriate in a corporate setting, but isn't worth 
: > considering here since copies of the repo would lack correct attributions.
: 
: I'd assumed that it was a tongue-in-cheek proposal, myself :-).
: 
: (It is, right?)

I assumed it as well, but just in case posted my "well, this won't
work" message...

Warner


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