Justin point out that we lack license information for be/src/gutil/utf in
last release[1].
Now in our LICENSE file, we record following information about these files
be/src/gutil/utf/*: licensed under the following terms:
UTF-8 Library
The authors of this software are Rob Pike and Ken Thompson.
Copyright (c) 1998-2002 by Lucent Technologies.
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
purpose without
fee is hereby granted, provided that this entire notice is included in
all copies of any
software which is or includes a copy or modification of this software and
in all copies
of the supporting documentation for such software. THIS SOFTWARE IS
BEING PROVIDED "AS
IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY. IN PARTICULAR, NEITHER THE
AUTHORS NOR
LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES MAKE ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND
CONCERNING THE
MERCHANTABILITY OF THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
And, I see the same declaration in Apache Kudu[2] and Apache Impala[3].
Now I'm confused, and don't know how to resolve this problem.
Is there somebody can help us?
1.
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/49474e13d2580a344fc4a7edb6b727d2afb5ea95b610fe45a311e275@%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3E
2. https://github.com/apache/kudu/blob/master/LICENSE.txt#L241
3. https://github.com/apache/impala/blob/master/LICENSE.txt#L237
Thanks,
Zhao Chun
