FW: fnmatch

Corinna Vinschen cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
Thu Jan 17 08:48:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:16:02AM -0500, Mark Bradshaw wrote:
> Oops.  Chuck caught a licensing problem with the openbsd version of
> strptime...
> 
> Bad news.  The stuff you took from OpenBSD is licensed under the BSD 
> w/advertising clause.  And, since it is owned by Klaus Klein and/or "The 
> NetBSD Foundation" it does NOT fall under the blanket changeover (from 
> w/advert clause to NO advert clause) issued by the UCalBerkeley folks.

I (still) don't exactly understand the implications of that clause.
And the fnmatch.c code is copyrighted by UCB...

Corinna

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