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[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <9bbcef730905260624x289af079ue8524e821c1dc891 at mail.gmail.com>
            Ivan Voras <ivoras at FreeBSD.org> writes:
: 2009/5/26 Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org>:
: > On Tue, 26 May 2009, Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote:
: >
: >> +/*-
: >> + * Copyright (c) 2008, 2009 Edward Tomasz Napierała <trasz at FreeBSD.org>
: >> + * All rights reserved.
: >> + *
: >> + * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
: >> + * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
: >> + * are met:
: >> + * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
: >> + *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
: >> + * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
: >> + *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
: >> + *    documentation and/or other materials provided with the
: >> distribution.
: >> + *
: >> + * ALTHOUGH THIS SOFTWARE IS MADE OF WIN AND SCIENCE, IT IS PROVIDED BY
: >> THE
: >
: > Cute though this BSD license variation is, I'm pretty sure it's not on the
: > approved license list.  Sticking to the standard license templates
: > potentially saves significant trouble later -- especially when people
: 
: Hmm, I'm sure that there exists some SVN magic which would allow
: authors to enter something
: 
: $BSDL2 Charlie Root 2008,2009$
: 
: and it expands to a perfect boilerplate on checkout :)

Yes, while possible, I'd argue against it.  With explicit boilerplate
added by the author, it is clear what the author's intentions are.
The above macro, it could be argued, may not be well understood enough
by everyone that a case could be made that it isn't a valid license
grant...

Warner