Correct licence in some net/common/current/src/ files

Jonathan Larmour jifl@eCosCentric.com
Sun Jan 12 04:53:00 GMT 2003


When we switched to the modified GPL (while I and the rest of the eCos 
team was still at Red Hat), the BSD code in the net stack that included 
the advertising clause could not be licensed that way as it conflicts with 
the GPL.  I removed the RHEPL and replaced it with either a public domain 
clause, or just left the warning that it may be BSD derived.

I have now learnt authoratitively that for some files, they were written 
completely from scratch, and thus since there is no BSD code involved, the 
GPL should have been applied after all - that was the intention. I have 
applied the Red Hat copyright of course, as it was us at Red Hat that 
wrote it.

Patch attached and checked in.

Jifl
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