Help on relicensing derived code

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Henrique Almeida <hdante at gmail.com> writes:
> I need to write an "errno.h" with constant values used by the FreeBSD
> kernel. My project uses exclusively the 2 clause BSD license. I
> expected to copy those values from FreeBSD errno.h. However, FreeBSD
> errno.h has 3 clauses. I'm a total newbie in licensing procedures so,
> it's not clear what to do.

In the US at least, you can safely ignore the license and copy the macro
definitions themselves.  There is plenty of legal precedent (including
but not limited to SCO vs. IBM) to back that up.  I'm unsure about the
comments, though.

DES
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