Question about NetBSD license

[mateczagany]

Hi! When refactoring netty-tcnative some code was moved to here which is referred to as code from NetBSD:

netty-jni-util/src/main/c/netty_jni_util.c

Line 259 in d659480

* The code is taken from netbsd.org (src/crypto/external/bsd/openssl/dist/crypto/dso/dso_dlfcn.c)

Can you please confirm that this is indeed NetBSD code and what license it brings? It's a bit hard to tell because this code was taken a long time ago, and the latest ref of the file referenced is has Apache 2.0 license: https://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/crypto/external/bsd/openssl/dist/crypto/dso/dso_dlfcn.c

Also there is no mention of this in the license of netty-jni-util, but it is mentioned in the package netty-tcnative. I am hopeful that the license is Apache 2.0, as that would allow ASF projects to distribute releases containing netty-tcnative-boringssl-static.

Thank you!!

[normanmaurer]

@mateczagany so I think it was brought over from openssl before they changed the license to ASL2. That said I think it should be possible to replace it with the lastest code that is in fact ASL2. Let me work on this.

[normanmaurer]

@mateczagany PTAL #21

[normanmaurer]

That said just to be clear this code in question would only resist in your library if it would have been compiled on AIX. For which we don't do any releases at all

[mateczagany]

Oh, I was not aware that AIX was not part of the normal release. Thank you for your help!

[normanmaurer]

@mateczagany no worries... I really appreciate your questions and concerns.