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 09:03:20AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > Kirk would have to back me up on this, but my understanding of the
> > decisions that the UCB Regents legal staff came to was that each
> > file should have a complete copyright and license clause and any
> > thing less causes problems because of "seprability", and "alterability"
> > because of seperate files.
> 
> Are you talking about a decision made before the USA joined the rest of
> the civilised world as signee of the Berne Convention?
> The copyright
> notice was certainly required at the time. A full license clause is
> nicer for "stealing" things, but certainly not required.

With or without application of Berne Convention, without a license
you (us, FreeBSD project, foundation) have no rights to publish
(redistribute) the work, unless that copyright is a of the form
that it would "placed in the public domain" the work.


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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org