svn commit: r327005 - in head: sbin/ipfw sys/sys usr.sbin/watch

[Pedro Giffuni]

> On Dec 19, 2017, at 19:15, Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd at pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> 
>> Author: pfg
>> Date: Tue Dec 19 22:40:16 2017
>> New Revision: 327005
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/327005
>> 
>> Log:
>>  SPDX: These are fundamentally BSD-2-Clause.
>> 
>>  They just omit the introductory line and numbering.
> 
> I again must assert that it would be better to not apply an SPDX than to
> apply one that is not an exact match for the license.  
> 
> 

Not being a lawyer, I would normally agree, however:

1) SPDX IDs are only advisory: we always keep the exact license text, which is what has legal value.

2) The license is detected by license scanners as BSD and it has two clauses so the description fits.

FWIW, according to SPDX lawyers, the numbering is not relevant and it would appear to me that the phrase:
 "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:” doesn’t add any information to the two clauses, which read:

Redistributions of source code must …
Redistributions in binary form must ...

Pedro.



>> Modified:
>>  head/sbin/ipfw/altq.c
>>  head/sbin/ipfw/dummynet.c
>>  head/sbin/ipfw/ipfw2.c
>>  head/sbin/ipfw/ipfw2.h
>>  head/sbin/ipfw/ipv6.c
>>  head/sbin/ipfw/main.c
>>  head/sbin/ipfw/nat.c
>>  head/sys/sys/msg.h
>>  head/sys/sys/snoop.h
>>  head/usr.sbin/watch/watch.c
> ...
> 
> -- 
> Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org