Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 09:49:00 -0700
Subject: Re: "patch" license
From: Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>
To: Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>

I'm fine with that.

Larry

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Joerg Schilling <
Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> since January 2011, I am maintaining a variant of your "patch" implementation
> in order to have a version of patch for OpenSolaris that has a chance to pass
> a POSIX compliance test.
>
> An old version is already integrated in my OpenSolaris source repository
> at:
>
>
>
> https://sourceforge.net/p/schillix-on/schillix-on/ci/default/tree/usr/src/cmd/patch/
>
> and recent development versions are in the tarball of the schily tools collection
> at:
>
>         https://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/
>
> I am interested in having a clean license agreement with you instead of the
> original text from the 1980s.
>
> The license agreement you negotiated with the OpenBSD project seems to be nice.
> Could you please send me an explicit permission to use the text from OpenBSD
> for my patch as well:
>
>  * Redistribution and use 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 AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY
>  * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
>  * WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
>  * DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR
>  * ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
>  * DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
>  * SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
>  * CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
>  * LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
>  * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
>  * SUCH DAMAGE.
>
> I am going to honor your license decision for my enhancements as well...
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> Jörg
>
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