From 226a9d167b8eb441f5792e052aa162eaa6be7d10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Warner Losh Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 02:02:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 When Nicaragua ratified in 2000, the Buenos Ares Convention of 1910 was effectively repealed.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 --- COPYRIGHT | 2 +- share/examples/drivers/make_device_driver.sh | 1 - share/examples/drivers/make_pseudo_driver.sh | 1 - share/examples/etc/bsd-style-copyright | 1 - share/examples/mdoc/POSIX-copyright | 1 - share/examples/mdoc/example.1 | 1 - share/examples/mdoc/example.3 | 1 - share/examples/mdoc/example.4 | 1 - share/examples/mdoc/example.9 | 1 - 9 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/COPYRIGHT b/COPYRIGHT index f1dce1ea2871..bcee8fd773be 100644 --- a/COPYRIGHT +++ b/COPYRIGHT @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ The compilation of software known as FreeBSD is distributed under the following terms: -Copyright (c) 1992-2018 The FreeBSD Project. All rights reserved. +Copyright (c) 1992-2018 The FreeBSD Project. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions diff --git a/share/examples/drivers/make_device_driver.sh b/share/examples/drivers/make_device_driver.sh index 4796a0c6bce4..baec33b6b2a1 100755 --- a/share/examples/drivers/make_device_driver.sh +++ b/share/examples/drivers/make_device_driver.sh @@ -115,7 +115,6 @@ fi cat >${TOP}/dev/${1}/${1}.c <${TOP}/dev/${1}/${1}.c <