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| author | Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> | 2012-02-11 14:04:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> | 2012-02-11 19:39:31 +0200 |
| commit | 331f89ff5bee365e1229fc25878791dea52f8d6e (patch) | |
| tree | d2cb0ce20e1a93391cd91bfad3352c95536ec9d3 /CONTRIBUTIONS | |
| parent | 5ea93947ca67ba83529798b806a15b247cdb2e93 (diff) | |
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Select the BSD license terms as the only license alternative
Simplify licensing terms for hostap.git by selecting the BSD license
alternative for any future distribution. This drops the GPL v2
alternative from distribution terms and from contribution requirements.
The BSD license alternative that has been used in hostap.git (the one
with advertisement clause removed) is compatible with GPL and as such
the software in hostap.git can still be used with GPL projects. In
addition, any new contribution to hostap.git is expected to be licensed
under the BSD terms that allow the changes to be merged into older
hostap repositories that still include the GPL v2 alternative.
Signed-hostap: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Diffstat (limited to 'CONTRIBUTIONS')
| -rw-r--r-- | CONTRIBUTIONS | 26 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTIONS b/CONTRIBUTIONS index 7670769..5ac7868 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTIONS +++ b/CONTRIBUTIONS @@ -13,17 +13,25 @@ The items (a) through (d) are identical to the Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1. To enable cleaner licensing option to be provided in the future, an additional item (e) is included. -In case of most files in hostap.git, "under the open source license -indicated in the file" means that the contribution is licensed both -under GPL v2 and modified BSD license (see below) and the choice between -these licenses is given to anyone who redistributes or uses the -software. As such, the contribution has to be licensed under both -options to allow this choice. +Until February 11, 2012, in case of most files in hostap.git, "under the +open source license indicated in the file" means that the contribution +is licensed both under GPL v2 and modified BSD license (see below) and +the choice between these licenses is given to anyone who redistributes +or uses the software. As such, the contribution has to be licensed under +both options to allow this choice. + +As of February 11, 2012, the project has chosen to use only the BSD +license option for future distribution. As such, the GPL v2 license +option is no longer used and the contributions are not required to be +licensed until GPL v2. In case of most files in hostap.git, "under the +open source license indicated in the file" means that the contribution +is licensed under the modified BSD license (see below). + The additional item (e) is used to collect explicit approval to license the contribution with only the modified BSD license (see below), i.e., -without the GPL v2 option. This is done to allow simpler licensing terms -to be used in the future. It should be noted that the modified BSD +without the GPL v2 option. This was done to allow simpler licensing +terms to be used in the future. It should be noted that the modified BSD license is compatible with GNU GPL and as such, this possible move to simpler licensing option does not prevent use of this software in GPL projects. @@ -72,7 +80,7 @@ unfortunately be accepted. Modified BSD license (no advertisement clause): -Copyright (c) 2002-2011, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> and contributors +Copyright (c) 2002-2012, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> and contributors All Rights Reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without |