svn commit: r189765 - in head: . lib/libc lib/libc/nls

[Sean C. Farley]

On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Xin LI wrote:

> Sean C. Farley wrote:
>> On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Norikatsu Shigemura wrote:
>>> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:36:07 -0500 (CDT) "Sean C. Farley" <scf at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>> functionality, however, the Citrus website is ambiguous about the 
>>>> license.
>>>
>>>     Really? > ambigous
>>>     Citrus is licensed under BSD License or variant (like
>>>     Perl or MIT).  It can use with (L)GPL.
>>>
>>>     WWW: http://citrus.bsdclub.org/
>>
>> OK.  Technically, the website is not ambiguous.  It is the license 
>> that is ambiguous.  :)  At least, they claim it is:
>>
>>     The license is still ambiguous at this point, but it will be either
>>     a BSD Style License or use perl's model. In addition, "the license
>>     must allow for BSD/MIT/(L)GPL uses of the code". This allows the
>>     possibility that it will be picked up by X or glib. However, it is
>>     only a "possibility". To be honest, so far there is not schedule to
>>     do port to glibc strictly. The X Consortium may be interested in
>>     iconv for its X-TT or Unicode support.
>>
>>     A person offering code for this project must agree to it being
>>     distributed with this license condition. In addition, copyright of
>>     this project is added to the source code. Of course the original
>>     copyright is left in place as well.
>
> IANAL but the code already included in NetBSD says. for example:

*snip BSD license*

> So my understanding is that, at least these code are released under a 
> 2-clause BSD code and we are supposed to be able to use these code 
> under such license?

If that is the case, then that is great.  I was only going by what the 
website said about the source.

Sean
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