[PATCH] traceroute: Update license text

[Walter Lozano]

Any comments on this license concern?

On 6/18/24 12:38, Walter Lozano wrote:
> The traceroutec.c with the original license text was introduced in [1]
> on 2001-07-10 and updated in [2] on 2001-07-12 to include Vladimir Oleynik
> as copyright holder, however, in [3] on 1999-07-22 the original authors of the
> license retroactively deleted the advertising clause (3) on the software
> under the University of California copyright, leading to the BSD-4-Clause-UC
> variant which removes the advertising imposition to the original software,
> but not on software with different copyright holders, as in this case with
> Vladimir Oleynik.
> 
> Due to the timeline, the license text included in busybox should not include
> the clause (3) "all advertising materials mentioning features or use of this
> software display the following acknowledgement", since the original license
> text should have been updated to remove it.
> 
> This commit removes the clause (3) from traceroute.c to avoid confusions.
> 
> [1] https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?h=1_36_stable&id=5c58d283bbd71db2a43379fc2b804f6c138cf35e
> [2] https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?h=1_36_stable&id=7467c8d3b6a50e2cbd8db750963d40b420ad38d1
> [3] https://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/m/ticket/history?id=4561
> --
> 
> Signed-off-by: Walter Lozano <walter.lozano at collabora.com>
> ---
>   networking/traceroute.c | 10 +++-------
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/networking/traceroute.c b/networking/traceroute.c
> index 767f537ce..417f3b7d3 100644
> --- a/networking/traceroute.c
> +++ b/networking/traceroute.c
> @@ -10,13 +10,9 @@
>    * retain the above copyright notice and this paragraph in its entirety, (2)
>    * distributions including binary code include the above copyright notice and
>    * this paragraph in its entirety in the documentation or other materials
> - * provided with the distribution, and (3) all advertising materials mentioning
> - * features or use of this software display the following acknowledgement:
> - * ''This product includes software developed by the University of California,
> - * Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and its contributors.'' Neither the name of
> - * the University nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse
> - * or promote products derived from this software without specific prior
> - * written permission.
> + * provided with the distribution. Neither the name of the University nor
> + * the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
> + * derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
>    * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ''AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
>    * WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
>    * MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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Walter Lozano
Collabora Ltd.