Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 11:45:31 +0100 From: Joel Dahl <joel@freebsd.org> To: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>, svn-src-user@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r244959 - user/crees/rclint Message-ID: <20130103104531.GF86255@jd.benders.se> In-Reply-To: <CADLo83-waM-s81DxZu5iJWFS69wbZNKRqbAoCBpU8D33Kr2qvA@mail.gmail.com> References: <201301021647.r02GlOJS024879@svn.freebsd.org> <CAF6rxgkkQSNjBSPrgcAe4Ze-t2_g=DZCv4iag7_KooCho8ZAiQ@mail.gmail.com> <CADLo83-waM-s81DxZu5iJWFS69wbZNKRqbAoCBpU8D33Kr2qvA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 03-01-2013 9:27, Chris Rees wrote: > 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". I've done multiple sweeps over the tree in the past. Just a few thoughts: * The NetBSD Foundation switched from a 4-clause to a 2-clause license back in 2008. Identify and make sure all TNF licensed files in our tree have the new 2-clause license. They encourage third parties to change the license on any files which have a 4-clause license contributed to the NetBSD Foundation to a 2-clause license. [1] * We have lots of files with UC Berkeley copyrights in the tree. Some of them may still have the advertising clause, but we can safely remove it. [2] [1] http://www.netbsd.org/about/redistribution.html [2] ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change -- Joel
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