On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Ulrik Sverdrup wrote: > block-sha1 needs an independent copyright and license header, in the > case that the original mozilla SHA-1 implementation is removed from > the tree. The Mozilla SHA1 is already removed from the tree in "next", and block-sha1/sha1.c header modified accordingly. As there is nothing remaining from the Mozilla SHA1 code, I don't think copying that Mozilla License block verbatim is appropriate. As Linus has put it himself, the Mozilla SHA1 code was more inspirational than anything else. And even if some license claim could be made, the MPL section was deleted anyway (as explicitly allowed), meaning that only the GPL (by vertu of being included in a GPL project) would then apply. A question was recently sent to all contributors (see the mail archive) to determine if they would agree to a relicensing of that code to make wider license compatibility. George Spelvin even rewrote that code as well with the goal of putting his version in the public domain. No definitive conclusion emerged so far though. Therefore I don't think this patch is appropriate. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html