Re: UC Berkeley 4-clause copyright

I don't have a commit bit.  I just checked OpenBSD/NetBSD.
They use a 3-clause license.

-- 
steve

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 06:51:30PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> If it says that it's copyright those people, that's an issue. If it
> doesn't then there's no issue. Doesn't look like it does. If you'd
> like, I can look at it an DTRT if you're unsure.
> 
> Warner
> 
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 6:48 PM, Steve Kargl
> <sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 06:37:56PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Steve Kargl
> >> <sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> >> > The files in lib/msun/bsdsrc contain the 4-clause UC Berkeley
> >> > Copyright.  Supposedly UCB no longer enforces clause 3.  Can
> >> > clause 3 be removed?
> >> >
> >> Yes. Remove it. It's convention these days to also renumber. It was
> >> likely missed.
> >>
> >> Are there other copyright holders? If so, that would be why I didn't
> >> remove it at the time years ago.... But I may have missed them too.
> >>
> >
> > lib/msun/b_log.c and lib/msun/mathimpl.h have appear to have
> > onlu UCB in file (other than bde and das in the RCS string).
> >
> > lib/msun/b_tgamma.c has a standard 4-clause BSD license with
> > the years 1992 and 1993 listed.  But, later in the file there
> > is the comment
> >
> > /*
> >  * This code by P. McIlroy, Oct 1992;
> >  *
> >  * The financial support of UUNET Communications Services is greatfully
> >  * acknowledged.
> >  */
> >
> > IANAL, so I don't know if this triggers the "and its contributors."
> > portion of clause 3.
> >
> > lib/msun/b_exp.c has a standard 4-clause BSD license with the
> > years 1985 and 1993 listed.  Later in the file is KC Ng's ChangeLog
> > like annotation
> >
> > /* EXP(X)
> >  * RETURN THE EXPONENTIAL OF X
> >  * DOUBLE PRECISION (IEEE 53 bits, VAX D FORMAT 56 BITS)
> >  * CODED IN C BY K.C. NG, 1/19/85;
> >  * REVISED BY K.C. NG on 2/6/85, 2/15/85, 3/7/85, 3/24/85, 4/16/85, 6/14/86.
> >
> > Again, IANAL.
> >
> > --
> > Steve
> > 20170425 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWUpyCsUKR4
> > 20161221 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbCHE-hONow
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list
> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org"

-- 
Steve
20170425 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWUpyCsUKR4
20161221 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbCHE-hONow