Re: Berkeley Regex - was: fixincludes jumbo patch 2

[Andi Kleen <ak at muc dot de>]

martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de (Martin v. Loewis) writes:

> > The issue is whether or not the Berkeley regex processing is okay
> > for inclusion or not.
> 
> The good news is that earlier objections about incompatibilities
> between GPL and the Berkeley license don't apply anymore, see
> 
> ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
> 
> GPL requires that no additional restrictions may be made, and the only
> additional restriction in BSD code has been revoked. I don't know for
> sure whether the regex code falls under this rule, but I guess it
> will.

Are you sure that the regexp code is copyrighted by the UCB, not
Henry Spencer? If the later only Henry could change the license,
Berkeley cannot do it by fiat.

-Andi

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