[Dovecot] Binary packagers: BSD license issues

[Timo Sirainen]

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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