Contributing modified BSD code

[fil...@cloudflare.com]

Hello,

A quick licensing question. Consider the following scenario:

- a 3rd party releases some code under the BSD license

- we take it and modify it, integrating it in the standard library

- we submit the change to Go (leaving all required (C) notes)

Is that allowed? My reading of points 5 and 7 of the CLA seem to suggest so, but I wanted to check.

Thanks,

Filippo Valsorda

CloudFlare

[Ian Lance Taylor]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 5:07 AM, <fil...@cloudflare.com> wrote:
>
> A quick licensing question. Consider the following scenario:
>
> - a 3rd party releases some code under the BSD license
> - we take it and modify it, integrating it in the standard library
> - we submit the change to Go (leaving all required (C) notes)
>
> Is that allowed? My reading of points 5 and 7 of the CLA seem to suggest so,
> but I wanted to check.

Always tough to answer these questions in the abstract, but I agree
that this sounds OK in principle.

Ian

[Russ Cox]

It sounds okay in principle but in general we try to avoid that, just to reduce the number of distinct such notices in the tree. Please ask about specifics before sending a CL.

Russ