svn commit: r331510 - in head: share/man/man4 sys/conf sys/dev/vmware/vmci sys/modules/vmware sys/modules/vmware/vmci

[Warner Losh]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 10:42 AM, Rodney W. Grimes <
freebsd at pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:

> Did VMWare provide the files with the dual license text in them?
> Or did they provide files with SPDX tags in them?
> Or ?
> Does VMWare have these files published some place, with terms of
> use and such?


VMWare provided the files exactly as Mark committed them. They were
provided by someone from VMware to our code review system.

The SPDX stuff is fine. there's nothing to get upset out here: they are
just as much a legal license as if the license had been included inline.
It's widespread practice in the industry dating back to the 80's when DEC
had an indirection notice in their Ultrix source code. In fact, you can
find examples of that going back to the early 70's, though we were under a
different copyright regime.

Warner