Berkeley Regex - was: fixincludes jumbo patch 2

[Andi Kleen]

On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 02:10:23PM +0100, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> > 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.

All copyright owners have to agree to a license change AFAIK.

-Andi

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