Re: [PATCH] block-sha1: Use mozilla-sha1 copyright and license information

[Ulrik Sverdrup <ulrik.sverdrup@gmail.com>]

2009/8/24 Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>:
>
> 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