On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 08:30:56AM -0400, Kaleb Keithley wrote:
>
> I presume that because this looks like a BSD (no advertising clause) license that it would be okay to include as "contrib" code with Gluster.
Yes, as noted by Emmanuel Dreyfus this is the GPL-compatible 2-clause
BSD license.
> It's not in the Fedora Project list of {good|bad} licenses yet, hence the reason I'm also forwarding to legal@fp.o.
The FreeBSD variant is listed
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/BSD#2ClauseBSD
It includes a sort of disclaimer of opinion at the end. Perhaps Fedora
should list a more generic version of the 2-clause BSD license as the
example, or should list one separately.
- RF
>
>
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> From: "Emmanuel Dreyfus" <manu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: kkeithle@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: "Gluster Build System" <jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7:51:38 AM
> Subject: Re: Change in glusterfs[master]: Provide missing basename_r and dirname_r
>
> Kaleb KEITHLEY (Code Review) <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > It's misleading to say these are FreeBSD's thread-safe functions.
> > FreeBSD's implementations aren't thread-safe. A more accurate
> > description is that these are thread-safe implementations derived from
> > FreeBSD's implementations.
>
> What about adopting Android flavor? It is 2 clause BSD and does not use
> pthread stuff. I suspect it will be better performance-wise.
>
> http://www.netmite.com/android/mydroid/bionic/libc/bionic/basename_r.c
> http://www.netmite.com/android/mydroid/bionic/libc/bionic/dirname_r.c
>
> --
> Emmanuel Dreyfus
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> manu@xxxxxxxxxx
>
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