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[jira] [Commented] (LEGAL-355) BSD 4 clause license / category X
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Henri Yandell commented on LEGAL-355:
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*nudge* [~jmclean]
> BSD 4 clause license / category X issue
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> Key: LEGAL-355
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-355
> Project: Legal Discuss
> Issue Type: Question
> Reporter: Justin Mclean
> Priority: Major
>
> It's been discovered that the latest Apache Mynewt 1.3 release candidate bundled 2 files licensed possibly under a category X license (4 clause BSD) [1][2] The license is category X due to the advertising clause in that license. Those files were also unfortunately included in the Apache Mynewt 1.2 and 1.1 source releases.
> The 1.3 release is currently been voted on without including those two files.
> The code in question is based on [3] which itself is based on NetBSD [4]. I say possibly above as NetBSD moved to a Category A / 2 clause BSD license in 2008 [5] and all contributions were changed retroactively to a 2 clause BSD license.
> So:
> - Can we change the licenses in those files to a 2 clause BSD license given the retroactive change to licensed contributions at NetBSD?
> - If not do we have to remove or fix the existing 1.2 and 1.1 releases in the ASF distribution area?
> - Is there anything else we need to do?
> 1. https://github.com/apache/mynewt-core/blob/28b29f44549bcb7cec4bf47f10af45237a88d12b/net/ip/lwip_base/src/netif/ppp/pppoe.c
> 2. https://github.com/apache/mynewt-core/blob/28b29f44549bcb7cec4bf47f10af45237a88d12b/net/ip/lwip_base/include/netif/ppp/pppoe.h
> 3. https://github.com/yarrick/lwip/blob/fed916b852331666fdab5b31d02a21500ce0100b/src/netif/ppp/pppoe.c
> 4. http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/net/if_pppoe.c?rev=1.132&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
> 5. http://www.netbsd.org/about/redistribution.html#why2clause
> 6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BSD_operating_systems#NetBSD
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