[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] ralloc: Omit detailed license information about talloc.

jfonseca at vmware.com jfonseca at vmware.com
Fri May 9 02:55:55 PDT 2014


From: José Fonseca <jfonseca at vmware.com>

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.
---
 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..70f7d9c 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/
+ * The talloc implementation is not available under a permissive
+ * license. It is more sophisticated than ralloc in that it includes
+ * reference counting and debugging features. See: http://talloc.samba.org/
  */
 
 #ifndef RALLOC_H
-- 
1.9.1



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