Regarding the license of Elm-Chan's FAT implementation, seems like we are good to use it.
----- Original message ----- From: Henri Yandell <[email protected]> To: ASF Legal Discuss <[email protected]> Subject: Re: License doubts regarding addition of external FAT library to Apache Mynewt Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 08:36:55 -0800 That's a 1-clause BSD license; looks fine to me. It's not explicitly listed on resolved.html because 1-clause is not very common (compared to 2-clause and 3-clause versions of BSD). Hen On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 4:45 AM, Fabio Utzig <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > To add support for the FAT filesystem to Apache Mynewt my PR > introduced > Elm-Chan's FatFs driver (http://elm-chan.org/fsw/ff/00index_e.html). > > There is no license file on the original package but source > code files > have the following header: > > /*------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------/ > / FatFs - Generic FAT file system module R0.12b > / > /-------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------/ > / > / Copyright (C) 2016, ChaN, all right reserved. > / > / FatFs module is an open source software. Redistribution and use of > FatFs in > / source and binary forms, with or without modification, are > permitted > provided > / that the following condition is met: > > / 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright > notice, > / this condition and the following disclaimer. > / > / This software is provided by the copyright holder and > contributors "AS > IS" > / and any warranties related to this software are DISCLAIMED. > / The copyright owner or contributors be NOT LIABLE for any damages > caused > / by use of this software. > /-------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------*/ > > Also some extra FAQ about it here: > http://elm-chan.org/fsw/ff/en/appnote.html#license > > Looks good to me but I would like to know from experts if > including it > could taint an Apache project in any way. > > Best, > Fabio Utzig > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >
