Subject: Re: 4-clause to 3-clause license
To: <>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 08/07/2003 18:36:48
> not sure if tech-userlevel is a good place to ask this.
>>Log Message:
>>Move UCB-licensed code from 4-clause to 3-clause licence.
>>
>>Patches provided by Joel Baker in PR 22253, verified by myself.
>
> does UCB license change (from 4-clause to 3-clause) cover code that is
> not originally shipped with 4.4BSD? here we are changing license on
> BIND8 (BIND8 was not in 4.4BSD, BIND4 was), ISC DHCP and tcpdump.
> files *may* have derived from 4.4BSD code, but i'm just not sure if
> these BIND8 source code are covered by UCB license change.
another thing: tcpdump includes old style UCB license, such as:
should we remove (3) here as well?
itojun
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