svn commit: r327086 - head/sys/dev/lmc

[Warner Losh]

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 4:41 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg at freebsd.org> wrote:

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> On 03/01/2018 18:03, Warner Losh wrote:
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> On Jan 3, 2018 3:17 PM, "Brooks Davis" <brooks at freebsd.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 05:15:02PM +0000, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> > Author: pfg
> > Date: Fri Dec 22 17:15:02 2017
> > New Revision: 327086
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/327086
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> > Log:
> >   SPDX: Reverse License ID tags from the lmc driver.
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> >   While the BSD-2-Clause license is there, the GPLv2 is also present.
> >   I am unsure of the implications of having both licenses as they are
> here.
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> >   I'll just leave it untagged and open for interpretation.
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> Deleting lmc(4) is probably the appropriate fix.  You can buy the things
> on e-bay, but they look to be 32-bit PCI devices and it seems unlikely
> they are in use on systems that will run FreeBSD 12.  I've updated the
> wiki with a note to this effect.
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> Which wiki?
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> https://wiki.freebsd.org/GPLinBase
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Ah, I was talking about deprecation, which we're really bad at
communicating. The ad-hoc methods we've used aren't so easy for users to
follow. I'll send a followup on that in a new thread.

Warner


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> I'd like to formalize things a little.
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> Either the license is very naively stated or the device should have been
> added in the contrib/gnu branches.
> I suspect the former but my attempts to contact the author were
> unsuccessful so it is probably better to just drop it.
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