Re: [PATCH] Implement safe_strncpy() as strlcpy() and use it more.

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Peter Eriksen schrieb:
> On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 07:15:40PM +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@ wrote:
>> In article <20060611100628.GA10430@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Sun, 11 Jun 2006 12:06:28 +0200), "Peter Eriksen" <s022018@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> says:
>>
>>> I've taken strlcpy() from the OpenBSD CVS without attribution.  Is this
>>> allowed?  If it is, how should it be stated?
>> Please include full copyright information.
> 
> Where should this information go?  Just above the function
> safe_strncpy(), or at the top of path.c?  I believe path.c is GPL, so
> can this be mixed freely with BSD licensed code?  Should I put
> safe_strncpy() into a seperate file as with strlcpy()?

Yes...  Or you could avoid all of this by using a GPL'd version, like
the one from the Linux kernel (in lib/string.c).

René
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