>Number: 150036 >Category: misc >Synopsis: 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: >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: >Unformatted: _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
