2009/8/24 Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx>: > > 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. Agreed. I just didn't look into next. Ulrik -- 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