[lwip-users] Re: [lwip] DHCP client license

[Adam Dunkels]

Hi all!

I have had my mind on other things than lwIP for the last few days, so I 
haven't responded to any lwIP-related mails at all. If this has hampered 
anyone's development, I'm really sorry about that.

Leon, I haven't had the time to look through your DHCP code, but I will be 
glad to be able to include it in lwIP when you feel that you are ready!

On Wednesday 16 January 2002 16.43, you wrote:
> I would like to use:
>
>  * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
>  *    notice(s), this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
>  * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
>  *    notice(s), this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
> the
>  *    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
>
> note the (s). Then I would simply add my copyright notice below the one
> of the Institute. I'm not sure if multiple copyrights are legal, so it
> might not be this simple.

It is perfectly OK with multiple copyrights on one source file - the 
copyrights apply to the different parts of the file and it doesn't matter 
that it is contained in one file. The FreeBSD source code is a good example 
of this: a lot of the code is copyrighted by the Regents of the University of 
California, Berkeley, but people have been adding code which is copyrighted 
by their respective owners.

I guess the best way to go is the one taken by the FreeBSD project and just 
add your copyright notice to the head of each file where you have copyrighted 
code. 

/adam
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Adam Dunkels <address@hidden>
http://www.sics.se/~adam
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