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From: "vo.x (Vit Ondruch) via ruby-core" <ruby-core@ml.ruby-lang.org>
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Subject: [ruby-core:117348] [Ruby master Bug#20395] Invalid license note in vsnprintf.c
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:25:15 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <redmine.journal-107507.20240327182514.703@ruby-lang.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: redmine.issue-20395.20240326111939.703@ruby-lang.org

Issue #20395 has been updated by vo.x (Vit Ondruch).


Actually, there is one more occurrence of this situation:

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/51e6becd391eac03fd3842e1db9b6907999d64ba/LEGAL?plain=1#L1090-L1093

and there is some history:

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/cb47ae58d339b7e7adbcd11c2d896a3bb61b8e7c

At this stage, it seems that the note was already obsolete, because the 3rd paragraph was already dropped on some places such as:

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/10d3f6a039fb05c309243f8937c36bd3b5a6f724

At different places, the note appeared out of blue it seems:

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/3ad44e0aa18ff335cf110d8da11d92af82e2ad51
https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/b9f3cd5a0c53304cf2611864a5ef750bdb7694d6

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Bug #20395: Invalid license note in vsnprintf.c
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20395#change-107507

* Author: vo.x (Vit Ondruch)
* Status: Open
* ruby -v: ruby 3.3.0 (2023-12-25 revision 5124f9ac75) [x86_64-linux]
* Backport: 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN, 3.3: UNKNOWN
----------------------------------------
I am looking into Ruby licenses and I stumble upon vsnprintf.c, namely about these lines:

~~~
/*
 * IMPORTANT NOTE:
 * --------------
 * From ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
 * paragraph 3 above is now null and void.
 */
~~~

I doubt the note is valid since commit:git|626f1ee196fe06514d66771ff0e3f82d7686af25, which actually removes the 3rd clause, while the (broken) URL refers to "4bsd". Can somebody please review? The note from the URL can be likely viewed e.g. [here](https://www.freebsd.org/copyright/license/)



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-03-27 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-26 11:19 [ruby-core:117326] [Ruby master Bug#20395] Invalid license note in vsnprintf.c vo.x (Vit Ondruch) via ruby-core
2024-03-26 13:30 ` [ruby-core:117329] " nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) via ruby-core
2024-03-27 17:12 ` [ruby-core:117346] " vo.x (Vit Ondruch) via ruby-core
2024-03-27 18:25 ` vo.x (Vit Ondruch) via ruby-core [this message]
2024-03-27 18:31 ` [ruby-core:117349] " vo.x (Vit Ondruch) via ruby-core

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