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0000513fileGeneralpublic2024-04-07 19:25
ReporterEmanuele Aina Assigned Tochristos  
PrioritylowSeveritytextReproducibilityalways
Status resolvedResolutionfixed 
Product Version5.45 
Fixed in VersionHEAD 
Summary0000513: mygetopt.h licensing terms are outdated (NetBSD moved from BSD-4-Clause to BSD-2-Clause)
Descriptionhttps://github.com/file/file/blob/70819a8a96d69c7ce1b106b8cfe7f965e3c79115/src/mygetopt.h currently reports the BDS-4-Clause licensing terms, including the problematic advertising clause.

However the NetBSD foundation relicensed everything to the BSD-2-Clause in 2008, see https://www.netbsd.org/about/redistribution.html#why2clause (the file has a CVS id from 2007).

They also state that "Third parties are encouraged to change the license on any files which have a 4-clause license contributed to the NetBSD Foundation to a 2-clause license." so it would be nice to update the licensing terms of the affected file, to make the life of licensing auditors slightly easier. :D
Steps To ReproduceJust check src/mygetopt.h
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Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2024-03-21 11:45 Emanuele Aina New Issue
2024-03-21 11:45 Emanuele Aina Tag Attached: documentation
2024-04-07 19:25 christos Assigned To => christos
2024-04-07 19:25 christos Status new => assigned
2024-04-07 19:25 christos Status assigned => resolved
2024-04-07 19:25 christos Resolution open => fixed
2024-04-07 19:25 christos Fixed in Version => HEAD