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

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 10:42 AM, Rodney W. Grimes <
> freebsd at pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> 
> > Did VMWare provide the files with the dual license text in them?
> > Or did they provide files with SPDX tags in them?
> > Or ?
> > Does VMWare have these files published some place, with terms of
> > use and such?
> 
> 
> VMWare provided the files exactly as Mark committed them. They were
> provided by someone from VMware to our code review system.

Without a license to redistributed clearly included some place?

> 
> The SPDX stuff is fine. there's nothing to get upset out here: they are
> just as much a legal license as if the license had been included inline.

I disagree, especially when I have repeatedly been told "SPDX" is purely
advisory by the person who commited them to the tree.

> It's widespread practice in the industry dating back to the 80's when DEC
> had an indirection notice in their Ultrix source code. In fact, you can
> find examples of that going back to the early 70's, though we were under a
> different copyright regime.

Those "references" to an external license involved a license that was
usually executed as a signed document.  You could not get the files
until you had executed the signed license, and that license in no
way allowed you rights to redistribute.  Those are big differences
in what we have here.

You appear to be willing to make an arbitrary depature from what
has been, and currently is, the standard form of the FreeBSD
source tree.

I disagree with your assesment of the situation.

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org