svn commit: r361775 - in head/sys: dts/arm64/overlays modules/dtb/rpi

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 7:04 AM Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2020, 8:10 PM Pedro Giffuni <pfg at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > On 03/06/2020 19:59, Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote:
> > > > > Rodney W. Grimes (freebsd at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) wrote:
> > > > >> [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
> > > > >>> Author: gonzo
> > > > >>> Date: Wed Jun  3 22:18:15 2020
> > > > >>> New Revision: 361775
> > > > >>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/361775
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Log:
> > > > >>>    Add spigen overlay for Raspberry Pi 4
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>    Submitted by:    gergely.czuczy at harmless.hu
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Added:
> > > > >>>    head/sys/dts/arm64/overlays/spigen-rpi4.dtso   (contents, props
> > > > changed)
> > > > >>> Modified:
> > > > >>>    head/sys/modules/dtb/rpi/Makefile
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Added: head/sys/dts/arm64/overlays/spigen-rpi4.dtso
> > > > >>>
> > > >
> > ==============================================================================
> > > > >>> --- /dev/null       00:00:00 1970   (empty, because file is newly
> > > > added)
> > > > >>> +++ head/sys/dts/arm64/overlays/spigen-rpi4.dtso    Wed Jun  3
> > > > 22:18:15 2020        (r361775)
> > > > >>> @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
> > > > >>> +/* $FreeBSD$ */
> > > > >> This file needs some form of copyright/license.
> > > > > Whom should I put as a copyright folder, The FreeBSD Project or the
> > > > > person who submitted the patch?
> > > >
> > > > The person that submitted the patch.
> > > >
> > >
> > > If it can be copyrighted.
> > >
> > > Note that the FreeBSD Project is not an entity and cannot hold
> > > > copyrights
> > >
> > >
> > > True, but the FreeBSD Project can be the name in the copyright line. It
> > is
> > > the eponymous author of the FreeBSD collection.
> >
> > Thats a very slippery slope, though US copyright law allows pseudonyms
> > as the copyright holder, I know of nothing that allows eponymous names.
> > And I do not believe pseudonyms are support in other jurisdiction.
> >
> > https://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl101.pdf
> 
> 
> It is not. Legally, there's no real difference from a pseudonym and an
> eponymous name. How could there be?

Based on what?   eponymous appears no place in the copyright law, so
I shall strongly disagree with you on that point.

> 
> I should have added that the project decided, years ago, to only use it for
> the collection copyright holder in the /COPYRIGHT file. All other files

It appears as if it is used many other places, as my find/grep showed.

> require an actual copyright holder at the time of submission. The project
> generally doesn't track successors in interest, though there are exceptions
> when the copyright holder themselves make the change.
> 
> Warner
> 
> 
> >
> > > (The Foundation can but unless they sponsored it, that
> > > > usually involves paperwork).
> > > >
> > >
> > > Yup.
> > >
> > > Warner
> > >
> > > > Pedro.
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> > --
> > Rod Grimes
> > rgrimes at freebsd.org
> >

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org