From: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
To: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement safe_strncpy() as strlcpy() and use it more.
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:17:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <448BFBD7.60900@lsrfire.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060611103358.GB10430@bohr.gbar.dtu.dk>
Peter Eriksen schrieb:
> On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 07:15:40PM +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@ wrote:
>> In article <20060611100628.GA10430@bohr.gbar.dtu.dk> (at Sun, 11 Jun 2006 12:06:28 +0200), "Peter Eriksen" <s022018@student.dtu.dk> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-11 11:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-11 10:06 [PATCH] Implement safe_strncpy() as strlcpy() and use it more Peter Eriksen
2006-06-11 10:15 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2006-06-11 10:33 ` Peter Eriksen
2006-06-11 11:17 ` Rene Scharfe [this message]
2006-06-11 16:45 ` Linus Torvalds
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