Tell whom? My engineering contact knows. Should I inform Sun legal? In my
experience, the legal department's number one concern is CYA, not Sun or the
community.
-Kip
On 11/23/06, Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 11:39:25AM -0800, Kip Macy wrote:
>
> On 11/23/06, Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 02:25:16AM +0000, Kip Macy wrote:
> >> kmacy 2006-11-23 02:25:16 UTC
> >>
> >> FreeBSD src repository
> >>
> >> Modified files:
> >> sys/sun4v/include asm.h
> >> sys/sun4v/sun4v hcall.S interrupt.S support.S t1_copy.S
> >> Log:
> >> In contrast to the non-obvious and flexible nature of the optimized
> >> bcopy in t1_copy.S (which shall retain its CDDL copyright, and thus
> >> likely be removed from GENERIC) I have removed the CDDL from
hcall.S
> >> because there is zero flexibility in the implementation of
> >> hypercalls as they derive directly from the hypervisor interface
> >> which is not copyrighted (ironically the source for the hypervisor
> >> itself is BSD licensed).
> >>
> >> It is best to start any bikeshed about this as soon as possible.
> >
> >OK, I'll bite.
> >
> >> Discussed with: bsdimp
> >
> >And Sun?
> Interfaces aren't copyrightable.
I'm sure I agree, but it would be polite if nothing else to actually
tell them rather than let them find out.
Ceri
--
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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