kern/150036: [rpc] Sun RPC license has less restrictions now.

[Pedro F. Giffuni]

The following reply was made to PR kern/150036; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip at tutopia.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/150036: [rpc] Sun RPC license has less restrictions now.
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:22:27 -0700 (PDT)

 It happens to be that Linux/Oracle developers working on
 NFSv4 took FreeBSD RPC code and along with some modifications
 relicensed all the code under a BSD license.
 
 With Xin Li's help I have been able to find this commits:
 
 http://git.infradead.org/users/steved/libtirpc.git/commit/775078e1201b9d218793f397d5dafd4ea89a5e02
 http://git.infradead.org/users/steved/libtirpc.git/commit/4f4ada08b780c27398b0749b7965fd248a7f3b99
 http://git.infradead.org/users/steved/libtirpc.git/commit/ba3945e2c7828be7926fd55d50f03db97dc7e022
 
 The first commit says:
 "Replace the Sun RPC license with the BSD license, with the explicit
 permission of Sun Microsystems"