[Buildroot] [PATCH] socketcand: add license information

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu May 9 17:40:55 UTC 2013


Dear Gilles Talis,

On Thu,  9 May 2013 10:30:27 -0700, Gilles Talis wrote:

> +SOCKETCAND_LICENSE = GPLv2

Are you sure? The only licensing information I can find is in
socketcand.c, and it says:

 * Authors:
 * Andre Naujoks (the socket server stuff)
 * Oliver Hartkopp (the rest)
 * Jan-Niklas Meier (extensions for use with kayak)
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2002-2009 Volkswagen Group Electronic Research
 * 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.
 * 3. Neither the name of Volkswagen nor the names of its contributors
 *    may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
 *    without specific prior written permission.
 *
 * Alternatively, provided that this notice is retained in full, this
 * software may be distributed under the terms of the GNU General
 * Public License ("GPL") version 2, in which case the provisions of the
 * GPL apply INSTEAD OF those given above.
 *
 * The provided data structures and external interfaces from this code
 * are not restricted to be used by modules with a GPL compatible license.

So the license is either GPLv2 or BSD-3c.

Thomas
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