On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 08:27:40AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 06:18:42PM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > > The modest increase in activation energy for that task seems worth it > > > > > for the short-term gains of reduced integration cost (this code will > > > > > greatly improve our ZFS-on-Linux test coverage.) > > > > > > > > > > Rod rightly points out that we haven't accepted SPDX tags alone as > > > > > license statements. The standard GPL v2.0 boiler plate should be > > > > > added > > > > > to this file along side the tag. > > > > > > > > I've copied the full copyright attribution that is in the > > > > corresponding files on Linux. Is there some reason why FreeBSD > > > > requires the files to be inflated with the full license text where the > > > > original lacks it? > > > > > > I think for a few reasons, I doubt you copied the whole distribution > > > that this file came from, as I am sure that distribution included > > > a LICENSE file. Second if you actually read the GPL v2 documentation > > > and follow what it says it says you must do this, just because some > > > one else does not follow the rules of what the GPL v2 says does not > > > give us to knowingling not do it. Third this is a particular dangerious > > > area for BSD to be mixing a GPL code with its kernel, to my knowlege > > > we have never had any gpl code in the kernel, no have we ever > > > allowed it, but thats a seperate argument, that should be made. > > > > Would the arm64 DTS/DTB files count as "GPL code in the kernel?" > > > > I, too, would like less GPL in project, both in userland in kernel. > > But, I can understand the desire for gcov. Note that I'm not > > advocating either way that FreeBSD perform an action. ;) > > Didnt we just remove an inbase, compiling BSD licensed chunk of > code called DRM and move it to ports. So if that was possible > this should be very rapidly applied here and this issue goes away.
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