svn commit: r333880 - head/sys/kern

[Eitan Adler]

On 19 May 2018 at 20:05, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 8:54 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> On 19/05/2018 21:43, Warner Losh wrote:
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>> On Sat, May 19, 2018, 8:40 PM Pedro Giffuni <pfg at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>>> On 19/05/2018 16:02, Warner Losh wrote:
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>>> On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 2:32 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
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>>>> In message
>>>> <CANCZdfrMjf8LgwUy4rL53m-XAM9P0fa-cb=cD5+V5Br+evussw at mail.gmail.com>
>>>> , Warner Losh writes:
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>>>> >> > Log:
>>>> >> >   Restore the all rights reserved language.
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>>>> "All Rights Reserved" is boilerplate from the old "Buenos Aires"
>>>> copyright convention, (a purely N+S American affair) and it lost
>>>> all meaning and relevance for UCB when USA ratified the Berne
>>>> Convention 60 years ago.
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>>> The US ratified the Berne Convention in 1989, which falls in the middle
>>> of the 4.x BSD releases... Relevant for 4.3, but not 4.4.
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>>>> The final Buenos Aires signatory joined Berne a couple of decades
>>>> ago, rendering the convention null and void, and therefore this
>>>> boilerplate has no meaning or relevance for anybody.
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>>> Right, I get that. However, someone removed it. Even though it's useless
>>> at this point, I don't believe we can remove it.
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>>> For the record, and with the usual disclaimer that I am *not* a lawyer
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>>> I attended a talk from a lawyer from Google that explained adding the
>>> "All Rights Reserved" line didn't mean what it intended to mean previously
>>> (or much at all) but that removing it was intended as having a meaning. In
>>> sum, and while I didn't completely grasp the issue is not clear all lawyers
>>> would agree on removing the line.
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>>> For old code it is what is, but perhaps the effort should be done for new
>>> code, starting here:
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>>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/pref-license.html
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>> Looks like i missed one. I'll fix it.
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>> While updating documentation, the SPDX guys also point to an outdated
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>> https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD.html
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> Can you get this updated?
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>> https://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html
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> Not sure where this file comes from...

Sending        freebsd-license.xml
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Committed revision 51670.

>>  With the additional mistake that they added the Documentation Project
>> disclaimer to the license:
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>>  "The views and conclusions contained in the software and documentation
>> are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing
>> official policies, either expressed or implied, of the FreeBSD Project."
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> Can you get that fixed?

You want me to remove the disclaimer as well?

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Eitan Adler