On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 9:48 PM, Eitan Adler <li...@eitanadler.com> wrote:
> On 19 May 2018 at 20:05, Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 8:54 PM, Pedro Giffuni <p...@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> On 19/05/2018 21:43, Warner Losh wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> On Sat, May 19, 2018, 8:40 PM Pedro Giffuni <p...@freebsd.org> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> On 19/05/2018 16:02, Warner Losh wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 2:32 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk > > > >>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> -------- > >>>> In message > >>>> <CANCZdfrMjf8LgwUy4rL53m-XAM9P0fa-cb=cd5+v5br+evu...@mail.gmail.com> > >>>> , Warner Losh writes: > >>>> > >>>> >> > Log: > >>>> >> > Restore the all rights reserved language. > >>>> > >>>> "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. > >>> > >>> > >>> 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. > >>> > >>>> > >>>> 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. > >>> > >>> > >>> Right, I get that. However, someone removed it. Even though it's > useless > >>> at this point, I don't believe we can remove it. > >>> > >>> For the record, and with the usual disclaimer that I am *not* a lawyer > >>> ... > >>> > >>> 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. > >>> > >>> For old code it is what is, but perhaps the effort should be done for > new > >>> code, starting here: > >>> > >>> > >>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/ > committers-guide/pref-license.html > >> > >> > >> > >> Looks like i missed one. I'll fix it. > >> > >> While updating documentation, the SPDX guys also point to an outdated > >> version: > >> > >> https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD.html > > > > > > Can you get this updated? > > > >> > >> https://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html > > > > > > Not sure where this file comes from... > > Sending freebsd-license.xml > Transmitting file data .done > Committing transaction... > Committed revision 51670. > > >> With the additional mistake that they added the Documentation Project > >> disclaimer to the license: > >> > >> "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." > > > > > > Can you get that fixed? > > You want me to remove the disclaimer as well? > Where's that found? Warner _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"