Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Android License for Gluster and Fedora Projec t (was Fwd: Change in glusterfs[master]: Provide missing basename_r and dirname_r)

[Richard Fontana]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 08:30:56AM -0400, Kaleb Keithley wrote:
>  
>  I presume that because this looks like a BSD (no advertising clause) license that it
> would be okay to include as "contrib" code with Gluster. 
Yes, as noted by Emmanuel Dreyfus this is the GPL-compatible 2-clause
BSD license.

>  It's not in the Fedora Project list of {good|bad} licenses yet,
> hence the reason I'm also forwarding to legal(a)fp.o. 
The FreeBSD variant is listed 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/BSD#2ClauseBSD

It includes a sort of disclaimer of opinion at the end. Perhaps Fedora
should list a more generic version of the 2-clause BSD license as the
example, or should list one separately.

 - RF


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>  
>  ----- Forwarded Message -----
>  From: "Emmanuel Dreyfus" <manu(a)netbsd.org&gt;
>  To: kkeithle(a)redhat.com
>  Cc: "Gluster Build System" <jenkins(a)build.gluster.com&gt;
>  Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7:51:38 AM
>  Subject: Re: Change in glusterfs[master]: Provide missing basename_r and dirname_r
>  
>  Kaleb KEITHLEY (Code Review) <root(a)dev.gluster.com&gt; wrote:
>  
>  > It's misleading to say these are FreeBSD's thread-safe functions.
>  > FreeBSD's implementations aren't thread-safe. A more accurate
>  > description is that these are thread-safe implementations derived from
>  > FreeBSD's implementations.
>  
>  What about adopting Android flavor? It is 2 clause BSD and does not use
>  pthread stuff. I suspect it will be better performance-wise.
>  
>  http://www.netmite.com/android/mydroid/bionic/libc/bionic/basename_r.c
>  http://www.netmite.com/android/mydroid/bionic/libc/bionic/dirname_r.c
>  
>  -- 
>  Emmanuel Dreyfus
>  http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
>  manu(a)netbsd.org
>