FastAC code (to be) relicensed under the BSD-2-Clause license

[sebastic]

Thanks for Tom "spot" Callaway of RedHat for Fedora Legal, the FastAC authors have agreed to relicense their code under the BSD-2-Clause license, see the attachments in the Bugzilla issue:

Bug 1674537 - LASzip contains FastAC code which does not allow modification

Direct links:

• BSD_Relicense_of_FastAC_code.pdf
  Contains the email thread between Tom Callaway, Amir Said & William (Bill) Pearlman
• new-fastac-header.txt
  The updated license header for the FastAC code

There is no new release of the FastAC code yet, once that's available the license issue preventing distributions from distributing LASzip should be resolved.

[rapidlasso]

This is awesome. Sorry I was not more proactive on that issue. But really glad to see it resolved!!! (-:

[sebastic]

It took almost 5 years and two distributions to get the FastAC license issue resolved, but I think we can close this issue with the changes in 3.4.0.

[spotrh]

Upstream pushed a new zip file with FastAC relicensed:
http://ecse.rpi.edu/~pearlman/SPIHT/EW_Code/FastAC_fix-nh.zip