Re: [Dovecot] Binary packagers: BSD license issues

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.