[haiku-development] Re: Need new UTF-16 to UTF-8 conversion functions in exfat, GPL okay?

  • From: John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:38:51 -0500

On Friday, February 14, 2014, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On 02/14/2014 03:12 AM, John Scipione wrote:
>
>> So, I refactored the functions from LLVM to work with the Haiku API. The
>> license is University of Illinois which is BSD-like. Some have
>> complained about an advertising clause but we should be able to use this
>> code if we put a note in About System.
>>
>
> If you mean the original BSD advertising clause -- i.e. "All advertising
> materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the
> following acknowledgement: ..." -- then please don't introduce code
> governed by it. The *BSD projects have put significant effort into getting
> such code relicensed, exactly because adding some copyright remark
> somewhere in the system does not automatically cover all implications of
> the clause. <IANAL> E.g. in this particular case, wherever (website,
> flyers,...) we mention Haiku's UTF-16 (or maybe even generally Unicode)
> support we might have to add the acknowledgement. </IANAL>


 You can see the license here:
http://llvm.org/releases/3.4/LICENSE.TXT

It looks like a 3 clause BSD style license to me (no advertising clause
likd above) so I don't know what the problem is.

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