misc/130728: There are 4-clause BSDL files in src/

Changwoo Ryu cwryu at debian.org
Sun Jan 18 23:20:02 PST 2009


>Number:         130728
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       There are 4-clause BSDL files in src/
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jan 19 07:20:01 UTC 2009
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Changwoo Ryu
>Release:        N/A
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>Description:
I found some source files in FreeBSD have 4-clause BSDL which is against FreeBSD license policy. Those files were derived from NetBSD before NetBSD moved to 2-clause BSDL.

For example:

src/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt_long.c
src/include/getopt.h
src/usr.bin/gencat/gencat.c

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>Fix:


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