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Re: [Xen-devel] Legal concerns: added hashtable implementation

To: Michael Paesold <mpaesold@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Legal concerns: added hashtable implementation
From: Ewan Mellor <ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:13:17 +0000
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On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 05:00:01PM +0000, Ewan Mellor wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 03:57:22PM +0100, Michael Paesold wrote:
> 
> > Regarding this changeset:
> > 
> > Added hashtable implementation, to support the reachability check against 
> > the
> > store. This code is by Christopher Clark.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ewan Mellor <ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > http://tx.downloads.xensource.com/xen-3.0-testing.hg?cmd=changeset;node=29bbcd88a853f582025f9f00e0ffc03b3112295d
> > 
> > 
> > The license of the added code is incompatible with the GPL (according to 
> > the FSF). It contains the so-called "advertising clause". See 
> > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TOCOrigBSD.
> 
> Damn, sorry.  I should be able to get Chris Clark (the author) to relicence
> this -- I'm sure his intention was not to be incompatible with the GPL.

Hang on a minute -- that code is licenced under the new BSD licence, not
the old one.  The advertising clause is the one that says

"All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must
display the following acknowledgement:
     This product includes software developed by the University of
     California, Berkeley and its contributors."

which is not contained in Christopher's code.

See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html

Ewan.

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