svn commit: r355737 - head/share/man/man9

[Warner Losh]

On Sun, Dec 15, 2019, 11:51 AM Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
wrote:

> > Author: imp
> > Date: Fri Dec 13 22:32:05 2019
> > New Revision: 355737
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/355737
> >
> > Log:
> >   Better copyright advice
> >
> >   Document the common practices around copyrights with "all rights
> reserved" in
> >   them as new copyright notices get added.
> >
> >   It's an open question qhether to point people at the fact that since
> the Berne
> >   convention was ratified, All rights reserved is largely obsolete.
> >   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_rights_reserved#Obsolescence has the
> >   details. The committer's guide will be revised shortly, and it's
> likely that's a
> >   better place for this discussion. If not, I'll add a blurb here.
> >
> >   Reviewed by: jhb@, brooks@
> >   Differential Review: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22800
>
> I object to the a review that specifically invites people to it,
> is authored and committed in anything short of 24 hours and more
> reasonable to actually ALLOW people time to repond of 72 hours.
>

The project has no fixed policies around reviews and giving time. Several
people did look at it and approve it before I committed it.

Having said that, this isn't like you've lost your ability to say something
forever now that this is in the tree. If you have suggestions to
improvement, I'm all ears.

I like your notion around (c) being noise, but I'll address that in the
review.

Warner


Regards,
> Rod
>
>
> Better copyright advice
> AcceptedPublic
> Authored by imp on Fri, Dec 13, 12:33.
>
> > Modified:
> >   head/share/man/man9/style.9
> >
> > Modified: head/share/man/man9/style.9
> >
> ==============================================================================
> > --- head/share/man/man9/style.9       Fri Dec 13 22:04:13 2019
> (r355736)
> > +++ head/share/man/man9/style.9       Fri Dec 13 22:32:05 2019
> (r355737)
> > @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
> >  .\"-
> > -.\" Copyright (c) 1995-2005 The FreeBSD Project
> > -.\" All rights reserved.
> > +.\" Copyright (c) 1995-2019 The FreeBSD Project
> >  .\"
> >  .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
> >  .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
> > @@ -26,7 +25,7 @@
> >  .\"  From: @(#)style 1.14 (Berkeley) 4/28/95
> >  .\" $FreeBSD$
> >  .\"
> > -.Dd June 3, 2019
> > +.Dd December 13, 2019
> >  .Dt STYLE 9
> >  .Os
> >  .Sh NAME
> > @@ -84,8 +83,32 @@ comments.
> >  Comments starting in columns other than the first are never
> >  considered license statements.
> >  Use the appropriate SPDX-License-Identifier line before the copyright.
> > +If the copyright assertion contains the phrase
> > +.Dq Li "All Rights Reserved"
> > +that should be on the same line as the word
> > +.Dq Li "Copyright" .
> > +You should not insert a new copyright line between an old
> > +copyright line and this phrase.
> > +Instead, you should insert a new copyright phrase after
> > +a pre-existing
> > +.Dq Li "All Rights Reserved"
> > +line.
> > +When making changes, it is acceptable to fold an
> > +.Dq Li "All Rights Reserved"
> > +line with each of the
> > +.Dq Li "Copyright"
> > +lines.
> > +For files that have the
> > +.Dq Li "All Rights Reserved"
> > +line on the same line(s) as the word
> > +.Dq Li "Copyright" ,
> > +new copyright assertions should be added last.
> > +New
> > +.Dq Li "Copyright"
> > +lines should only be added when making substantial changes to the file,
> > +not for trivial changes.
> >  .Pp
> > -After any copyright header, there is a blank line, and the
> > +After any copyright and license comment, there is a blank line, and the
> >  .Li $\&FreeBSD$
> >  for non C/C++ language source files.
> >  Version control system ID tags should only exist once in a file
> >
>
> --
> Rod Grimes
> rgrimes at freebsd.org
>