RE: [Jython-dev] A license question

[Tim P. <ti...@em...>]

[Finn Bock]
> I have made a "sha" module based on source from cryptix. Their license
> "The cryptix general license" is claimed to a Berkeley License.
>
>   http://www.cryptix.org/docs/license.html

Yes, that's "the new" Berkeley License (w/ a different copyright holder),
and not even the FSF <wink> will have a problem with it.

> The source SHA1.java contains the complete license text from the link
> above. The sha.__doc__ also contains the complete license text. By this
> I hope to have complied with both conditions, but before I commit it I
> want to be sure ...
>
> Would it cause problems for users if some parts of jython are covered by
> such a license?

It should be fine -- it doesn't obligate them in any way, except to refrain
from removing the copies of the license you added.  There are a few similar
files in the CPython implementation, and nobody ever complained about them
there either.

too-many-licenses-are-a-weariness-of-the-soul-ly y'rs  - tim