svn commit: r327086 - head/sys/dev/lmc

[Pedro Giffuni]

On 03/01/2018 18:03, Warner Losh wrote:
>
>
> On Jan 3, 2018 3:17 PM, "Brooks Davis" <brooks at freebsd.org 
> <mailto:brooks at freebsd.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 05:15:02PM +0000, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
>     > Author: pfg
>     > Date: Fri Dec 22 17:15:02 2017
>     > New Revision: 327086
>     > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/327086
>     <https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/327086>
>     >
>     > Log:
>     >   SPDX: Reverse License ID tags from the lmc driver.
>     >
>     >   While the BSD-2-Clause license is there, the GPLv2 is also
>     present.
>     >   I am unsure of the implications of having both licenses as
>     they are here.
>     >
>     >   I'll just leave it untagged and open for interpretation.
>
>     Deleting lmc(4) is probably the appropriate fix.  You can buy the
>     things
>     on e-bay, but they look to be 32-bit PCI devices and it seems unlikely
>     they are in use on systems that will run FreeBSD 12.  I've updated the
>     wiki with a note to this effect.
>
>
> Which wiki?
>

https://wiki.freebsd.org/GPLinBase

> I'd like to formalize things a little.
>

Either the license is very naively stated or the device should have been 
added in the contrib/gnu branches.
I suspect the former but my attempts to contact the author were 
unsuccessful so it is probably better to just drop it.

> Inc is for very old interconnect to telco... So maybe that's safe to 
> delete.
>
> Warner
>
>
Pedro.