svn commit: r244959 - user/crees/rclint

[Chris Rees]

On 2 Jan 2013 23:42, "Eitan Adler" <eadler at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On 2 January 2013 11:47, Chris Rees <crees at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Author: crees (ports committer)
> > Date: Wed Jan  2 16:47:23 2013
> > New Revision: 244959
> > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/244959
> >
> > Log:
> >   Copyrights can't be owned by The FreeBSD Project apparently
>
> We actually have this issue in a few places.  One example:
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/COPYRIGHT?view=co
>
> In addition some files claim copyright by the FreeBSD foundation but
> there have been no copyright assignments:
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/CHANGES?view=co
>
> There is a separate issue of copyrights in src/ having subtly distinct
> copyrights (- vs * for the bullets).
>
> This is a ripe project for $someone to work on: finding the subtle
> differences and making them conform to a single standard.  Note that
> this would likely require the copyright owner(s) to agree to the
> change.

I think a higher priority than bullet format is weeding out the last of the
"advertising clauses".

Warner Losh has done a lot of work on this, but I think bringing it up
again may cause a nervous breakdown :)

Chris