[Zlib-devel] assembly code licence (continue)

[Xin LI]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Gilles Vollant <info at winimage.com> wrote:
> Xin LI wrote:
>
> " We (FreeBSD) are not currently using the assembly code version mainly due
> to licensing issue (the code for amd64 uses a different license as contrary
> to 686 asm).  "
>
> by visit the Brian Raiter page
>
> http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/assembly.html
>
> at the end of the page he made a licence patch
>
> " So, in acknowledgement of its continuing usefulness, I've changed the
> license to be the same as that of zlib proper. (In fact, the above diff does
> nothing but change the license in the source comments and update the
> README.686 file.)"
>
> he remove the GNU licence reference and use exacly the zlib licence scheme
>
> of course I agree
>
> so I think we must do the same thing in all assembly code

Yeah I have actually written an e-mail to Mark about this change and
he have applied it on asm code for 686.  Not sure about the rest code
though, technically we need to seek approval from all contributors (at
least all copyright owners) to make the license change.

Cheers,
-- 
Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net