#12619: the 'Zlib' license file contains more than just the license itself
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Reporter: mmu_man | Owner: nobody
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: - General | Version: R1/Development
Keywords: license | Blocked By:
Blocking: | Has a Patch: 0
Platform: All |
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When working on the recipe for NFD with a GCI student, I noticed the Zlib
license we provide contains the whole header block with the C comments and
also the copyright.
{{{
/* zlib.h -- interface of the 'zlib' general purpose compression library
version 1.2.3, July 18th, 2005
Copyright (C) 1995-2005 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
…
3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source
distribution.
Jean-loup Gailly Mark Adler
jloup@xxxxxxxx madler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The data format used by the zlib library is described by RFCs (Request
for
Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1950.txt
(zlib format), rfc1951.txt (deflate format) and rfc1952.txt (gzip
format).
*/
}}}
It makes it unsuitable to use with other Zlib-licensed software (I made
the student add a "Zlib-generic" license file for NFD, but we shouldn't
need that).
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/12619>
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