Re: Re: [avr-libc-dev] Licensing issue

[j_bastian]

> > They are not as inconsistent as you might think.
>
Yes, most of the licenses are the BSD 3 or 2 condition licenses, but there are 
enough slight differences in copyrights and disclaimers that it seemed to make 
it difficult to come up with a good text that would satisfy all the individual 
licenses.

IANAL, but I have attached a text that I think satisfies at least the spirit of 
all the licenses (but I have not done a text comparison of all the conditions 
and disclaimers). Also the disclaimer text of the University of CA files are 
rolled into the general "copyright holder" disclaimer text.

I think I might rearrange the copyrights in order of the number of occurrences, 
but first I would like to know if this seems to be an acceptable format.

Thank you

Jerry Bastian

Acknowledgments:

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Copyright (c) 1999, Michael Stumpf
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Copyright (c) 2002, Colin O'Flynn
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Copyright (c) 2002, Joerg Wunsch
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Copyright (c) 2002, Marek Michalkiewicz
Copyright (c) 2002, Marek Michalkiewicz <address@hidden>
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Copyright (c) 2002, Michael Stumpf
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Copyright (c) 2002, Philip Soeberg
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Copyright (c) 2003, Eric B. Weddington, R. Patommel
Copyright (c) 2003, Joerg Wunsch
Copyright (c) 2003, Keith Gudger
Copyright (c) 2003, Reiner Patommel
Copyright (c) 2003, Reiner Patommel based on strncat by Marek Michalkiewicz
Copyright (c) 2003  Theodore A. Roth

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