Re: Including BSD-licensed code in Mozilla

Gerv

this is really helful.  Is there a place where all this exists written 
down that we can point people?  If not, can we create one?  (where "we" 
here is the licensing folks, with help as needed from the overall legal 
team?

mitchell

On 12/2/09 4:48 AM, Gervase Markham wrote:
> 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
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