bin/98911: getopt(1): getopt.c license issue
Jason McIntyre
jmc at kerhand.co.uk
Mon May 5 05:30:06 UTC 2008
The following reply was made to PR bin/98911; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Jason McIntyre <jmc at kerhand.co.uk>
To: Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/98911: getopt(1): getopt.c license issue
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 06:26:46 +0059
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 10:50:05PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
> Since this issue was raised in June 2006 NetBSD added a header at the
> top of getopt.c:
>
> /*
> * This material, written by Henry Spencer, was released by him
> * into the public domain and is thus not subject to any copyright.
> */
>
> The FreeBSD man page for getopt(1) does record Henry as the author, but
> the README in src/usr.bin/getopt is possibly misleading. The original
> message can be seen through Google Groups at
> http://groups.google.com/group/mod.std.unix/msg/4ebaa418597b4ff0 and it
> appears clear that Ian Darwin isn't claiming he wrote getopt but that
> he'd found it and was posting a copy of it for others to see. In
> particular, note that the History section remained intact and attributed
> Henry as the original author.
>
i see your point. however the README does not exactly do a great job of
clarifying the license - it's hard to read it and not conclude ian
wasn;t the author.
wouldn;t it be clearer to put the public domain blurb on these files?
jmc
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