On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 08:30:56AM -0400, Kaleb Keithley wrote:

I presume that because this looks like a BSD (no advertising clause) license that it would be okay to include as "contrib" code with Gluster.

Yes, as noted by Emmanuel Dreyfus this is the GPL-compatible 2-clause BSD license.

It's not in the Fedora Project list of {good|bad} licenses yet, hence the reason I'm also forwarding to legal@fp.o.

The FreeBSD variant is listed https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/BSD#2ClauseBSD

It includes a sort of disclaimer of opinion at the end. Perhaps Fedora should list a more generic version of the 2-clause BSD license as the example, or should list one separately.

- RF

----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Emmanuel Dreyfus" manu@netbsd.org To: kkeithle@redhat.com Cc: "Gluster Build System" jenkins@build.gluster.com Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7:51:38 AM Subject: Re: Change in glusterfs[master]: Provide missing basename_r and dirname_r

Kaleb KEITHLEY (Code Review) root@dev.gluster.com wrote:

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It's misleading to say these are FreeBSD's thread-safe functions. FreeBSD's implementations aren't thread-safe. A more accurate description is that these are thread-safe implementations derived from FreeBSD's implementations.

What about adopting Android flavor? It is 2 clause BSD and does not use pthread stuff. I suspect it will be better performance-wise.

http://www.netmite.com/android/mydroid/bionic/libc/bionic/basename_r.c http://www.netmite.com/android/mydroid/bionic/libc/bionic/dirname_r.c

-- Emmanuel Dreyfus http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz manu@netbsd.org