Re: CC0 license of dlmalloc in sgx-sdk package review

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On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 12:11:38PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> One of the last stumbling blocks is that it includes a copy of the
> "dlmalloc" code under the CC0 license, which is now a forbidden
> code license for packages being newly added to Fedora.
> 
> The authors of sgx-sdk have contacted the original author of
> dlmalloc, and he apparently suggested that since CC0 is a public
> domain license, they can just add a second license header of their
> choosing to the source files and Fedora can then ignore the orignial
> CC0 license.

To close the loop on this, after a little more email discussion with
Doug Lee, he graciously agreed to replace the CC0 license with MIT-0
as seen here, so there should no longer be any license problem for
projects bundling dlmalloc in Fedora:

  https://gee.cs.oswego.edu/pub/misc/malloc.c

[quote]
* Version 2.8.6 Wed Aug 29 06:57:58 2012  Doug Lea
  Re-licensed 25 Sep 2023 with MIT-0 replacing obsolete CC0
  See https://opensource.org/license/mit-0/
[/quote]


With regards,
Daniel
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