Berkeley Regex - was: fixincludes jumbo patch 2

Martin v. Loewis martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de
Thu Dec 30 05:13:00 GMT 1999


> 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.

According to
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/include/regex.h?rev=1.3 ,
it is

 * Copyright (c) 1992 Henry Spencer.
 * Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
 *      The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
 *
 * This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
 * Henry Spencer of the University of Toronto.

So I guess UCB can (and did) change the license on that code. Henry
might have other versions of that code that he did not contribute to
Berkeley.

Regards,
Martin


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