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Date:      Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:15:23 -0700
From:      Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>
To:        "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Norikatsu Shigemura <nork@FreeBSD.ORG>, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.ORG>, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG, David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r189765 - in head: . lib/libc lib/libc/nls
Message-ID:  <49BADAFB.4070009@delphij.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903131607250.6590@thor.farley.org>
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Sean C. Farley wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Norikatsu Shigemura wrote:
> 
>> Hi Sean!
> 
> Hi Norikatsu,
> 
>> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:36:07 -0500 (CDT)
>> "Sean C. Farley" <scf@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> functionality, however, the Citrus website is ambiguous about the
>>> license.
>>
>>     Really? > ambigous
>>     Citrus is licensed under BSD License or variant (like
>>     Perl or MIT).  It can use with (L)GPL.
>>
>>     WWW: http://citrus.bsdclub.org/
> 
> OK.  Technically, the website is not ambiguous.  It is the license that
> is ambiguous.  :)  At least, they claim it is:
> 
>     The license is still ambiguous at this point, but it will be either
>     a BSD Style License or use perl's model. In addition, "the license
>     must allow for BSD/MIT/(L)GPL uses of the code". This allows the
>     possibility that it will be picked up by X or glib. However, it is
>     only a "possibility". To be honest, so far there is not schedule to
>     do port to glibc strictly. The X Consortium may be interested in
>     iconv for its X-TT or Unicode support.
> 
>     A person offering code for this project must agree to it being
>     distributed with this license condition. In addition, copyright of
>     this project is added to the source code. Of course the original
>     copyright is left in place as well.

IANAL but the code already included in NetBSD says. for example:

/*-
 * Copyright (c)2008 Citrus Project,
 * All rights reserved.
 *
 * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
 * are met:
 * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
 *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
 * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
 *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
 *    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
 *
 * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
 * ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
 * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE
 * ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
 * FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
CONSEQUENTIAL
 * DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
 * OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
 * HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT,
STRICT
 * LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
 * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 * SUCH DAMAGE.
 */

So my understanding is that, at least these code are released under a
2-clause BSD code and we are supposed to be able to use these code under
such license?

Cheers,
- --
Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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