From nobody@FreeBSD.org Fri Aug 27 08:04:28 2010 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4242C1065693 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:04:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nobody@FreeBSD.org) Received: from www.freebsd.org (www.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 313B08FC22 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:04:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o7R84RbA060839 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:04:27 GMT (envelope-from nobody@www.freebsd.org) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by www.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o7R84R7U060838; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:04:27 GMT (envelope-from nobody) Message-Id: <201008270804.o7R84R7U060838@www.freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:04:27 GMT From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Sun RPC license has less restrictions now. X-Send-Pr-Version: www-3.1 X-GNATS-Notify: >Number: 150036 >Category: kern >Synopsis: [rpc] Sun RPC license has less restrictions now. >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Aug 27 08:10:01 UTC 2010 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: Fri Aug 26 19:30:07 UTC 2011 >Originator: Pedro F. Giffuni >Release: >Organization: >Environment: N/A >Description: According to one-of-those-well-known techie rumour sites on the net, Oracle has relicensed the SUN RPC code which previously had an inconvenient term: From /head/sys/rpc/rpc.h " ... Users * may copy or modify Sun RPC without charge, but are not authorized * to license or distribute it to anyone else except as part of a product or * program developed by the user. .. " >How-To-Repeat: Some links provided from the website: http://spot.livejournal.com/315383.html http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/08/gnulinux-finally-free-software/index.htm >Fix: New Oracle license looks like a 3-Clause BSD License. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: kern/150036: [rpc] Sun RPC license has less restrictions now. Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:16:42 -0700 (PDT) I asked Simon Phipps a bit more about this, his answer was: _____________ The permission to relicense was given to Red Hat. I believe you can find it here: http://sources.redhat.com/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=a7ab6ec83e144dafdc7c46b8943288f450f8e320 S. ______________ It can be confirmed that the code there is under a three clause BSD license. From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: kern/150036: [rpc] Sun RPC license has less restrictions now. Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:22:27 -0700 (PDT) It happens to be that Linux/Oracle developers working on NFSv4 took FreeBSD RPC code and along with some modifications relicensed all the code under a BSD license. With Xin Li's help I have been able to find this commits: http://git.infradead.org/users/steved/libtirpc.git/commit/775078e1201b9d218793f397d5dafd4ea89a5e02 http://git.infradead.org/users/steved/libtirpc.git/commit/4f4ada08b780c27398b0749b7965fd248a7f3b99 http://git.infradead.org/users/steved/libtirpc.git/commit/ba3945e2c7828be7926fd55d50f03db97dc7e022 The first commit says: "Replace the Sun RPC license with the BSD license, with the explicit permission of Sun Microsystems" >Unformatted: