[oe] tcp-wrappers: What kind of license? Custom or BSD?

Paul Menzel paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net
Tue Apr 26 13:52:04 UTC 2011


Dear OE folks,


is »tcp-wrapper« the correct value [1] to assign to `LICENSE`? Wikipedia
says this is a BSD license [2]. The license is the following [3].

        As of June 1, 2001, the text below constitutes the TCP Wrappers license.
        
        /************************************************************************
        * Copyright 1995 by Wietse Venema.  All rights reserved.  Some individual
        * files may be covered by other copyrights.
        *
        * This material was originally written and compiled by Wietse Venema at
        * Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 1990, 1991,
        * 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995.
        *
        * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
        * modification, are permitted provided that this entire copyright notice
        * is duplicated in all such copies.
        *
        * This software is provided "as is" and without any expressed or implied
        * warranties, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of
        * merchantibility and fitness for any particular purpose.
        ************************************************************************/


Thanks,

Paul


[1] http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/tree/recipes/tcp-wrappers/tcp-wrappers_7.6.bb?id=0393bec46ca556be6845221b701dcf8f9508eb0c#n3
[2] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/TCP_Wrapper
[3] ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license
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