[Dovecot] Binary packagers: BSD license issues
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Sun Sep 23 00:27:12 EEST 2007
On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 13:05 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Then there are a few files from Cyrus as well which contain:
>
> * 4. Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following
> * acknowledgment:
> * "This product includes software developed by Computing Services
> * at Carnegie Mellon University (http://www.cmu.edu/computing/)."
..
> 4-clause BSD is a bit annoying but not that big a deal. But I don't
> think it's compatible with LGPL. If you're still the only copyright
> holder, you can of course make an exception that advertising clause is
> ok.
I didn't think of that before. I finally went and rewrote those
functions to v1.1:
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/rev/c02c7912fb15
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/rev/6d15946eccb5
After that the only BSD licensed code is in sha[12].c, and I added that
to COPYING file:
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/rev/59b7fec40e0d
I guess these changes should be made to v1.0 also, but it would be nice
to have more testing done so things don't accidentally break.
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