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[Qemu-devel] [PULL 1/8] slirp: update COPYRIGHT to use full 3-Clause BSD


From: Marc-André Lureau
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 1/8] slirp: update COPYRIGHT to use full 3-Clause BSD License
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:17:43 +0100

According to commit 2f5f89963186d42a7ded253bc6cf5b32abb45cec ("Remove
the advertising clause from the slirp license"), Danny Gasparovski
gave permission to license slirp code under 3-clause BSD license:

    Subject: RE: Slirp license
    Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 10:51:00 +1100
    From: "Gasparovski, Daniel" <address@hidden>
    To: "Richard Fontana" <address@hidden>

    I have no objection to having Slirp code in QEMU be licensed under
    the 3-clause BSD license.

slirp/COPYRIGHT's initial version in 2004 (commit 5fafdf24) listed
only 3 clauses BUT used the poisonous advertising clause for clause 3
which is the controversial clause of non-free 4-clause (that is, it
appears that the BSD-4 license was copied, and then the WRONG clause
was deleted, when creating COPYRIGHT.  Perhaps explained as an easy
mistake to make since 3-clause was created by removing clause 3 of the
4-clause, where you sometimes see the three-clause version with
clauses 1, 2, 4; but more commonly see a renumbered version with
clauses 1, 2, 3 to close the gap. If you pay attention only to clause
numbers instead of content, it can be easy to confuse which clause to
delete to go from 4-clause to 3-clause).

Commit 2f5f89963 removed the poisonous wrong clause on
the grounds of moving from 4-clause to 3-clause; but did not add the
missing clause, which makes it LOOK like the 2-clause version.  But I
think we have a decent enough trail showing the intent for 3-clause.

Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
---
 slirp/COPYRIGHT | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/slirp/COPYRIGHT b/slirp/COPYRIGHT
index 1bc83d497e..9863ea31cb 100644
--- a/slirp/COPYRIGHT
+++ b/slirp/COPYRIGHT
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ The copyright terms and conditions:
  2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
     notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
     documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+ 3. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its
+    contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
+    from this software without specific prior written permission.
 
  THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
  INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
-- 
2.21.0.4.g36eb1cb9cf




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