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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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