Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 09:27:05 +0000 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> Cc: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-user@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r244959 - user/crees/rclint Message-ID: <CADLo83-waM-s81DxZu5iJWFS69wbZNKRqbAoCBpU8D33Kr2qvA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgkkQSNjBSPrgcAe4Ze-t2_g=DZCv4iag7_KooCho8ZAiQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <201301021647.r02GlOJS024879@svn.freebsd.org> <CAF6rxgkkQSNjBSPrgcAe4Ze-t2_g=DZCv4iag7_KooCho8ZAiQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2 Jan 2013 23:42, "Eitan Adler" <eadler@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On 2 January 2013 11:47, Chris Rees <crees@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
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