Re: Including BSD-licensed code in Mozilla

On 30/11/09 19:11, dwitte wrote:
> I have some BSD-licensed code which I'd like to include in NSPR,
> specifically:
> http://www.gnu-darwin.org/shims/inet_addr.c
>
> How is this traditionally done? Asking the author to relicense is not
> an option.

That particular code has the BSD advertising clause, which would 
normally mean we can't include it. However, fortunately, the copyright 
owner is the Regents of the University of California. A blanket 
permission exists from the University of California at Berkeley to 
remove that clause from code:
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change

So we can include the code and remove the clause.

We also need to add the license boilerplate to about:licence. Please 
file a bug for this work.

Gerv