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Remove XDR License Information #707

Closed hyoklee closed 3 months ago

hyoklee commented 3 months ago

RPM has COPYING.

It has XDR:


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3rd-party software included in HDF4: XDR

HDF4 builds the Sun RPC version of XDR as an internal 3rd-party I/O
library under this license:

    Sun RPC is a product of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and is provided for
    unrestricted use provided that this legend is included on all tape
    media and as a part of the software program in whole or part.  Users
    may copy or modify Sun RPC without charge, but are not authorized
    to license or distribute it to anyone else except as part of a product or
    program developed by the user.

    SUN RPC IS PROVIDED AS IS WITH NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING THE
    WARRANTIES OF DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
    PURPOSE, OR ARISING FROM A COURSE OF DEALING, USAGE OR TRADE PRACTICE.

    Sun RPC is provided with no support and without any obligation on the
    part of Sun Microsystems, Inc. to assist in its use, correction,
    modification or enhancement.

    SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY WITH RESPECT TO THE
    INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHTS, TRADE SECRETS OR ANY PATENTS BY SUN RPC
    OR ANY PART THEREOF.

    In no event will Sun Microsystems, Inc. be liable for any lost revenue
    or profits or other special, indirect and consequential damages, even if
    Sun has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

    Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    2550 Garcia Avenue
    Mountain View, California  94043

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derobins commented 3 months ago

We still use code that qualifies as "XDR" internally, even if that's not entirely apparent, so we can't remove this yet.

Maybe after 4.4.0.

bgermann commented 3 months ago

The code that is still in use is actually under a different license, see e.g. mfhdf/src/h4_xdr.c. It is a BSD-3-Clause license, which was the result of a relicensing effort.

So that COPYING file is indeed outdated.