Subject: misc/22268: 4-clause UCB BSD license update (distrib/)
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Joel Baker <fenton@debian.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/25/2003 11:23:04
>Number: 22268
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: 4-clause UCB BSD license update (distrib/)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: misc-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Jul 25 17:24:00 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Joel Baker
>Release: NetBSD 1.6U (2003-07-24)
>Organization:
The Debian Project
>Environment:
System: NetBSD thenet.internal.lightbearer.com 1.6U Debian/NetBSD 1.6U (GENERIC)
#0: Wed Jul 2 22:56:47 MDT 2003 root@thenet.internal.lightbearer.com:/usr/src/s
ys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
In 1997, the University of California, Berkeley issued a statement
retroactively relicensing all code held under their copyright from
a 4-clause 'traditional' BSD license to a new 3-clause 'revised' BSD
license, which removed the advertising clause. The license texts in
the NetBSD CVS tree are misleading, as they still have the old version
with 4 clauses. Per instructions from the Board of The NetBSD
Foundation, I am submitting a set of patches which corrects this (by
revising the license text, and splitting it in cases where UCB is not
the only holder of Copyright listed in the license).
This PR is for the files in distrib/.
>How-To-Repeat:
N/A
>Fix:
A gzipped patch (from cvs diff -u) can be obtained from:
http://users.lightbearer.com/users/lucifer/NetBSD/src_distrib.diff.gz
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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