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Author SHA1 Message Date
Warner Losh
226a9d167b Remove 'All Rights Reserved' from the collection copyright and templates.
The original Berkeley Software Distributions were made in the 1980's
and 1990's. At that time, the Buenos Ares Convention of 1910 was in
force in most of the countries in the Americas. It required an
affirmative statement of rights reservation, typically using 'All
Rights Reserved.' The Regents included this phrase in their copyright
notices to invoke this treaty to ensure maximal copyright protection.

In the 1990's, Latin America coutries ratifeid the Berne Convention on
copyrights which prohibited them from requiring an affirmative
statement to reserve the rights. When Nicaragua ratified in 2000, the
Buenos Ares Convention of 1910 was effectively repealed. This made all
the 'All Rights Reserved' phrases obsolete and legal deadweight most
of the time, and certainly in the cases removed here.

Since it's no longer required, and is in fact meaningless, core has
decided to dropped it from the project's collection copyright and
sample templates. It encourages other rights holders to do the same
after consultation with their legal department.

More see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires_Convention for
more information.

Approved by: core@ (emaste@, jhb@)
Differential Review:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15264
2018-05-09 02:02:49 +00:00
Bjoern A. Zeeb
c300109360 Happy New Year 2018 my friends! 2017-12-31 16:48:04 +00:00
Baptiste Daroussin
5f101037af Bump copyright year.
Happy New Year 2017!
2016-12-31 12:41:42 +00:00
Bjoern A. Zeeb
881b1e2f95 Bump copyright year.
Happy New Year 2016!
2015-12-31 11:21:45 +00:00
Bjoern A. Zeeb
116c46a407 Bump copyright year.
Happy New Year 2015!
2014-12-31 10:00:43 +00:00
Glen Barber
b10852181e Bump copyright year.
Happy New Year 2014!

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
2013-12-31 12:18:10 +00:00
Bjoern A. Zeeb
3d4ff5e9f0 Happy New Year 2013! 2012-12-31 11:22:55 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
879dda1fd5 Happy 2012 to FreeBSD users in Samoa. 2011-12-31 04:38:04 +00:00
Bjoern A. Zeeb
55cb182a23 Happy New Year 2011.
Approved by:	core (kib)
2010-12-31 18:07:16 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
86155157b9 Happy New Year 2010! :-) 2009-12-31 10:00:37 +00:00
Warner Losh
13f397eb05 Bump the odometer of the years. A little early this year for 7.1R. 2008-12-30 04:46:25 +00:00
Warner Losh
26775f91c1 Add missing 'THE'. This was discussed with core@ in the larger
context of making this text match the OSL text, but the changes that
OSL silently made to the license to approve it haven't been brought
back yet.  Still working on that issue.

We likely should start using the UTF-8 copyright symbol (What ©
expands to in HTML), but I'm not 100% confident in my ability to tell
Emacs to save it like that.  And I haven't gotten approval for that
change.

Approved by:	core@
2008-11-28 19:21:10 +00:00
Xin LI
13d02c9bc7 Happy new year 2008! 2007-12-31 22:09:19 +00:00
Xin LI
0660f55828 Welcome to 2007 2006-12-31 16:35:29 +00:00
Warner Losh
95e9a46f73 Happy new year, a little late 2006-01-15 22:06:10 +00:00
Maxim Sobolev
b720e0e54f Complete 2005 transition.
Happy New Year! :-)
2005-01-01 07:29:20 +00:00
Warner Losh
8a3df29883 Update the COPYRIGHT file to include FreeBSD's compilation copyright
by the pseudonymous author "The FreeBSD Project."  This is long
overdue.  I've left the 4.4BSD copyright information intact since much
of our code base is derived from 4.4BSD-Lite.

Prodded by: phk on more occasions than can be counted.
2003-12-31 22:35:22 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
9a88a85627 Update to add the July 22, 1999 addendum.
(ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change)
1999-09-05 21:33:47 +00:00
Peter Wemm
97d92980a9 $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 01:35:59 +00:00
Brian Somers
965066d630 Add Id keyword 1998-09-13 23:11:13 +00:00
Rodney W. Grimes
18bc25c173 This is the official 4.4 Lite copyright.
Obtained from:	4.4 BSD Lite tape
1994-09-11 07:53:28 +00:00