Re: [Monotone-devel] Botan license change (patch review plz)

[Zack Weinberg]

Yes, please apply.  Thanks for being diligent about this sort of thing.

zw

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Jack Lloyd <address@hidden> wrote:
> In April 2008 the license for botan changed slightly (details at
> http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/botan-devel/2008-April/000527.html)
>
> This patch changes three files, AUTHORS and gzip.{cc,hh}
>
> For AUTHORS I just copied the (C) notice for botan to match the text
> in nvm's botan/license.txt (presumably AUTHORS just never got updated
> after the inital import of botan into nvm)
>
> For gzip, I changed the copyright to reflect the authors and actual
> in-the-legal-sense copyright holders of botan's zlib.{cpp,h} on which
> the gzip implementation is based. These are Peter J Jones (of Netxx
> fame) who wrote the bzip2 support for botan (actually the very first
> piece of contributed code for botan), which I later copied and
> modified for zlib. This does not AFAIK actually change anything,
> because (since 'The Botan Project' did not exist in any legal sense)
> the copyright was always actually owned by Peter and myself, so this
> just changes the files to more accurately reflect reality.
>
> I can check in if OK.
>
> -Jack
>
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