[libvirt] [PATCH 01/14] Introduce a simple API for handling JSON data

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Thu Dec 3 14:15:15 UTC 2009


On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 12:56:32PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 01:50:59PM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > 
> >   http://lloyd.github.com/yajl/
> > 
> > The licence is BSD ... but with what looks like an advertizing clause
> > see point 2. below:
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >  Copyright 2007-2009, Lloyd Hilaiel.
> >  
> >  Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
> >  modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
> >  met:
> >  
> >   1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
> >      notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
> >  
> >   2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
> >      notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
> >      the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
> >      distribution.
> >  
> >   3. Neither the name of Lloyd Hilaiel nor the names of its
> >      contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
> >      from this software without specific prior written permission.
> >  
> >  THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
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> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I don't think that is the BSD+Advertizing - that would have a fourth
> clause explicitly mentioning Advertizing. This looks just like a 
> standard 3-clause BSD to me, when comparing to:
> 
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:BSD

  Okay, rereading it, yes this looks fine.

Daniel

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