svn commit: r333880 - head/sys/kern

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 2:32 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
wrote:

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> In message <CANCZdfrMjf8LgwUy4rL53m-XAM9P0fa-cb=cD5+V5Br+evussw@
> mail.gmail.com>
> , Warner Losh writes:
>
> >> > Log:
> >> >   Restore the all rights reserved language.
>
> "All Rights Reserved" is boilerplate from the old "Buenos Aires"
> copyright convention, (a purely N+S American affair) and it lost
> all meaning and relevance for UCB when USA ratified the Berne
> Convention 60 years ago.
>

The US ratified the Berne Convention in 1989, which falls in the middle of
the 4.x BSD releases... Relevant for 4.3, but not 4.4.


> The final Buenos Aires signatory joined Berne a couple of decades
> ago, rendering the convention null and void, and therefore this
> boilerplate has no meaning or relevance for anybody.
>

Right, I get that. However, someone removed it. Even though it's useless at
this point, I don't believe we can remove it.

Warner