Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Van Jacobson dissector.
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 12:01:57PM +1030, Glen Turner wrote:
> Please read
>
> ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
Yes, I know about that (that's why I filed Clause 3 off of "in_cksum.c"
before including it in Ethereal; that was code from BSD); I wasn't sure,
however, whether the code in question was covered by that. The
copyright notice had a different version of the licensing clause, and I
didn't know whether it came from the Berkeley Software Distribution or
not (that letter speaks only of certain of the Berkeley Software
Distribution ("BSD") source code files"; it doesn't explicitly speak of
all code copyrighted by the Regents of the University of California).
There are versions of "slcompress.c" and "slcompress.h" in 4.4-Lite, at
least according to
http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/astaff/reference/4.4lite/sys/net/
and those have the standard Berkeley license, so those, at least, can be
argued to be covered by that notice; the Linux version (from which the
version in Irfan's patch appears to have come) may have come from an
older version with a different license, but it's probably essentially
the same code, so that should be good enough. (I may put the 4.4-Lite
copyright notice in it, and then remove clause 3 from it, just for
cleanliness' sake. The Linux kernel guys might want to do the same.)
