svn commit: r331510 - in head: share/man/man4 sys/conf sys/dev/vmware/vmci sys/modules/vmware sys/modules/vmware/vmci

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 09:46:16AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 09:03:20AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > > Kirk would have to back me up on this, but my understanding of the
> > > decisions that the UCB Regents legal staff came to was that each
> > > file should have a complete copyright and license clause and any
> > > thing less causes problems because of "seprability", and "alterability"
> > > because of seperate files.
> > 
> > Are you talking about a decision made before the USA joined the rest of
> > the civilised world as signee of the Berne Convention?
> > The copyright
> > notice was certainly required at the time. A full license clause is
> > nicer for "stealing" things, but certainly not required.
> 
> With or without application of Berne Convention, without a license
> you (us, FreeBSD project, foundation) have no rights to publish
> (redistribute) the work, unless that copyright is a of the form
> that it would "placed in the public domain" the work.

That doesn't mean that every file has to include such a license tag.
Neither does it have to carry a copyright note nowadays, but that used
to be different.

Joerg