Major license change: 4-clause BSD to 3-clause BSD #94
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Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
This patch adopts the 3-clause BSD license for all src/libnet_link_*.c files previously under the 4-clause BSD license. Effectively this drops the "obnoxious" advertising clause which is usually what is under most contention when BSD licenses are discussed. For a background, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses page provides an interesting read. Briefly, in 1999 Berkeley rescinded the original 3rd clause (see below) leading to a change in major software projects to, not only adopt this new BSD license, but also renumber the listed provisions. Ref. ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
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I approve of the license change to 3-clause BSD. |
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Good by me, sorry for the lag in response. |
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Cool Mark, thank you! :) So @sam-github, it's up to you now ... ;) |
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Any of my code you are free to relicense. |
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Nice, we have a full house! 😃👍 |
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This pull request is an attempt to relicense critical files in the libnet project from the 4-clause to 3-clause BSD license. I've opened the PR to start a discussion with as many of the copyright holders (below) as possible.
The project itself still has a LICENSE file listing the 2-clause BSD license. During the course of this PR that file might need to be updated as well.
The following list of people have been created based on non-trivial changes to the code base, based on the GIT history in the libnet project. History before the import to SourceForge is lost, so here we would be grateful to Mike Schiffman, @mschiffm for input. Mike, notice the separate commit which changes the
libnet_asn1.cheader. I used the header fromlibnet_asn1.h, under the assumption it was a copy-paste mistake.The list below has a checkbox, if you approve of the license change you can add a comment, or do a GitHub Review, and I will track the progress using these checkboxes.
If I cannot find you on GitHub, I will contact each of you separately via email.