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cmd: a few files have potentially conflicting license declarations #13576

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binarycrusader opened this issue Dec 10, 2015 · 2 comments
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During the translation of various C code to Go code (presumably), it looks as though the standard Go copyright header and license notice were combined with the existing Inferno/Plan9 license in a single file. The pattern typically seen is the top of the file has this:

// Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

Which is then followed eventually by an old Inferno/Plan9 copyright notice like this one:

// Inferno utils/include/ar.h
// http://code.google.com/p/inferno-os/source/browse/utils/include/ar.h
//
//      Copyright � 1994-1999 Lucent Technologies Inc.  All rights reserved.
//      Portions Copyright � 1995-1997 C H Forsyth (forsyth@terzarima.net)
//      Portions Copyright � 1997-1999 Vita Nuova Limited
//      Portions Copyright � 2000-2007 Vita Nuova Holdings Limited (www.vitanuova.com)
//      Portions Copyright � 2004,2006 Bruce Ellis
//      Portions Copyright � 2005-2007 C H Forsyth (forsyth@terzarima.net)
//      Revisions Copyright � 2000-2007 Lucent Technologies Inc. and others
//      Portions Copyright � 2009 The Go Authors.  All rights reserved.
//
// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
// of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
// in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
// to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
// copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
// furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
//
// The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
// all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
//
// THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
// IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
// FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
// AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
// LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
// OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
// THE SOFTWARE.

As a result, these files are potentially in a conflicting state license-wise since they simultaneous claim to be governed by the terms found in LICENSE and by the older copyright notice found within:

src/cmd/internal/obj/ar.go
src/cmd/internal/obj/stack.go
src/cmd/internal/obj/funcdata.go

If this is not an issue, please feel free to state as such and close this bug.

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The licenses don't conflict as far as I can see.

Still, I'll see if there is a reason we still need the Inferno license.

@ianlancetaylor ianlancetaylor added this to the Go1.6 milestone Dec 11, 2015
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CL https://golang.org/cl/17779 mentions this issue.

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