[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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