Mesa (master): ralloc: Omit detailed license information about talloc.

Jose Fonseca jrfonseca at kemper.freedesktop.org
Tue May 13 11:48:57 UTC 2014


Module: Mesa
Branch: master
Commit: 1646f4d0fb0efec04dce62b6dd4d974206acc8ac
URL:    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=1646f4d0fb0efec04dce62b6dd4d974206acc8ac

Author: José Fonseca <jfonseca at vmware.com>
Date:   Fri May  9 10:55:17 2014 +0100

ralloc: Omit detailed license information about talloc.

That information misleads source code auditing tools to think that
ralloc itself is released under LGPL v3.

Instead, simply state talloc is not licensed under a permissive license.

v2: Use wording suggested by Kenneth.

Reviewed-by: Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com>
Acked-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org>

---

 src/glsl/ralloc.h |    7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/glsl/ralloc.h b/src/glsl/ralloc.h
index 4581a7a..1fe5357 100644
--- a/src/glsl/ralloc.h
+++ b/src/glsl/ralloc.h
@@ -38,10 +38,9 @@
  * Tridgell's talloc, but ralloc is an independent implementation
  * released under the MIT license and tuned for Mesa.
  *
- * The talloc implementation is available under the GNU Lesser
- * General Public License (GNU LGPL), version 3 or later. It is
- * more sophisticated than ralloc in that it includes reference
- * counting and debugging features. See: http://talloc.samba.org/
+ * talloc is more sophisticated than ralloc in that it includes reference
+ * counting and useful debugging features.  However, it is released under
+ * a non-permissive open source license.
  */
 
 #ifndef RALLOC_H




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