On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 09:23:13AM -0700, Aaron Patterson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a question about the license for bcrypt.c. The OpenBSD policy
> page (http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html) says:
>
> Berkeley rescinded the 3rd term (the advertising term) on 22 July
> 1999. Verbatim copies of the Berkeley license in the OpenBSD tree have
> that term removed. In addition, many 3rd-party BSD-style licenses
> consist solely of the first two terms.
>
> But bcrypt.c still contains the 3rd term:
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/crypt/bcrypt.c?rev=1.24;
> content-type=text%2Fplain
>
> Is bcrypt.c still under the 4 term license? Should the third term be
> removed?
Why don't you ask the copyright owner i.e. Niels Provos? He's the only
one who can decide that.
-Otto
