mklocale(1) self license violation about BSDL 2-clause.

Issue #29 closed
Takehiko NOZAKI repo owner created an issue

BSDL includes following words:

  1. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, ...

this means, copyright holder embed the copyright string into binary, and can reproduce it by what(1) such as:

$ what /usr/bin/mklocale
mklocale
         @(#) Copyright (c) 1993 The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

but yacc.y doesn't embeded copyright string by __COPYRIGHT() macro.

Comments (4)

  1. Takehiko NOZAKI reporter

    Squashed commit of the following:

    commit ef8da4b5c5da2eb0da39608b34348a82eed36fa3 Author: Takehiko NOZAKI tnozaki@outlook.com Date: Fri Jul 25 13:20:45 2014 +0900

    CLEANUP: remove dead code.
    

    commit 87030660adb3241ceea935e32e0545b71e7ea254 Author: Takehiko NOZAKI tnozaki@outlook.com Date: Fri Jul 25 13:17:13 2014 +0900

    CLEANUP: call setprogname(3) and use getprogname(3) to print usage().
    

    commit ddbb98229f0b3d31bd043e5cdaec3d4a09028de9 Author: Takehiko NOZAKI tnozaki@outlook.com Date: Fri Jul 25 13:14:43 2014 +0900

    CLEANUP: use EXIT_{SUCCESS,FAILURE} instead of 0/1.
    

    commit 7b5350ac43553166e739e749f36c75e40bf9836e Author: Takehiko NOZAKI tnozaki@outlook.com Date: Fri Jul 25 13:10:13 2014 +0900

    BUGFIX: Issue #29 -- mklocale(1) self license violation about BSDL 2-clause.
    

    commit ab5f26c509b72a336c01604baedb53a15f561549 Author: Takehiko NOZAKI tnozaki@outlook.com Date: Fri Jul 25 12:56:42 2014 +0900

    CLEANUP: use efun(3) for malloc/strn?dup/strlcpy/fopen error check.
    

    commit f7b96a71fdba0be73cdc3ce68744e46a34762705 Author: Takehiko NOZAKI tnozaki@outlook.com Date: Fri Jul 25 12:31:33 2014 +0900

    BUGFIX: Issue #28 -- mklocale(1) may silently create corrupted db file when fwrite(3) fail.
    

    commit b1aad39466d81895296a12229cf7803ef99be8c3 Author: Takehiko NOZAKI tnozaki@outlook.com Date: Fri Jul 25 12:04:27 2014 +0900

    BUGFIX: Issue #27 -- mklocale(1) uses strncpy(3).
    1. add set_encoding() function and use strlcpy() in it.
    2. add check string truncation, and call yyerror() if detected.
    

    commit b9442a02b8f97e33db10042152e05db4d8606ccc Author: Takehiko NOZAKI tnozaki@outlook.com Date: Fri Jul 25 11:48:44 2014 +0900

    CLEANUP: use uint32_t instead of obsolete u_int32_t.
    <<cset 199b3d2259bdd42cc4e4d54d21ea26c86e0b6e12>> is not enough.
    

    commit 4a50d9544cd0f90cc6c1253b1a5e42b582c3ecdb Author: Takehiko NOZAKI tnozaki@outlook.com Date: Fri Jul 25 11:37:41 2014 +0900

    CLEANUP: apply style, fix header include order.
    

    commit fc8791e371cdc892bd191b27555694c7d1a7fe32 Author: Takehiko NOZAKI tnozaki@outlook.com Date: Fri Jul 25 11:34:17 2014 +0900

    CREANUP: ANSI-fy, change K&R C -> ISO-C prototype, and ac/av -> argc/argv.
    

    commit 780f3f0d36c77c4ecd0151d0f645ae9db6693f91 Author: Takehiko NOZAKI tnozaki@outlook.com Date: Fri Jul 25 11:17:16 2014 +0900

    CLEANUP: de-__P(), remove ancient K&R C source compatibility.
    

    commit 199b3d2259bdd42cc4e4d54d21ea26c86e0b6e12 Author: Takehiko NOZAKI tnozaki@outlook.com Date: Fri Jul 25 11:11:02 2014 +0900

    CLEANUP: use uint32_t instead of obsolete u_int32_t.
    

    → <<cset 655f218c0116>>

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