Re: [PATCH] block-sha1: Use mozilla-sha1 copyright and license information

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Ulrik Sverdrup wrote:

block-sha1 needs an independent copyright and license header, in the
case that the original mozilla SHA-1 implementation is removed from
the tree.

The Mozilla SHA1 is already removed from the tree in "next", and 
block-sha1/sha1.c header modified accordingly.

As there is nothing remaining from the Mozilla SHA1 code, I don't think 
copying that Mozilla License block verbatim is appropriate.  As Linus 
has put it himself, the Mozilla SHA1 code was more inspirational than 
anything else.

And even if some license claim could be made, the MPL section was 
deleted anyway (as explicitly allowed), meaning that only the GPL (by 
vertu of being included in a GPL project) would then apply.

A question was recently sent to all contributors (see the mail 
archive) to determine if they 
would agree 
to a relicensing of that code to make wider license compatibility.  
George Spelvin even rewrote that code as well with the goal of 
putting his version in the public domain.  No definitive conclusion 
emerged so far though.

Therefore I don't think this patch is appropriate.


Nicolas