svn commit: r333880 - head/sys/kern

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, May 19, 2018, 8:40 PM Pedro Giffuni <pfg at freebsd.org> wrote:

>
> On 19/05/2018 16:02, Warner Losh wrote:
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 2:32 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
> wrote:
>
>> --------
>> In message <CANCZdfrMjf8LgwUy4rL53m-XAM9P0fa-cb=
>> cD5+V5Br+evussw at mail.gmail.com>
>> , Warner Losh writes:
>>
>> >> > Log:
>> >> >   Restore the all rights reserved language.
>>
>> "All Rights Reserved" is boilerplate from the old "Buenos Aires"
>> copyright convention, (a purely N+S American affair) and it lost
>> all meaning and relevance for UCB when USA ratified the Berne
>> Convention 60 years ago.
>>
>
> The US ratified the Berne Convention in 1989, which falls in the middle of
> the 4.x BSD releases... Relevant for 4.3, but not 4.4.
>
>
>> The final Buenos Aires signatory joined Berne a couple of decades
>> ago, rendering the convention null and void, and therefore this
>> boilerplate has no meaning or relevance for anybody.
>>
>
> Right, I get that. However, someone removed it. Even though it's useless
> at this point, I don't believe we can remove it.
>
> For the record, and with the usual disclaimer that I am *not* a lawyer ...
>
> I attended a talk from a lawyer from Google that explained adding the "All
> Rights Reserved" line didn't mean what it intended to mean previously (or
> much at all) but that removing it was intended as having a meaning. In sum,
> and while I didn't completely grasp the issue is not clear all lawyers
> would agree on removing the line.
>
> For old code it is what is, but perhaps the effort should be done for new
> code, starting here:
>
>
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/pref-license.html
>


Looks like i missed one. I'll fix it.


> Feel free to take it to core and a real lawyer :).
>

Been there done that already. That's why we have rehashed this like 4 times
now...

Warner

>