On 19/05/2018 21:43, Warner Losh wrote:
On Sat, May 19, 2018, 8:40 PM Pedro Giffuni <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 19/05/2018 16:02, Warner Losh wrote:
On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 2:32 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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, 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While updating documentation, the SPDX guys also point to an outdated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
https://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html
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."
Cheers,
Pedro.
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