From: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:17:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement safe_strncpy() as strlcpy() and use it more.
Message-ID: <448BFBD7.60900@lsrfire.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20060611103358.GB10430@bohr.gbar.dtu.dk>

Peter Eriksen schrieb:
> On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 07:15:40PM +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@ wrote:
>> In article <20060611100628.GA10430@bohr.gbar.dtu.dk> (at Sun, 11 Jun 2006 12:06:28 +0200), "Peter Eriksen" <s022018@student.dtu.dk> says:
>>
>>> I've taken strlcpy() from the OpenBSD CVS without attribution.  Is this
>>> allowed?  If it is, how should it be stated?
>> Please include full copyright information.
> 
> Where should this information go?  Just above the function
> safe_strncpy(), or at the top of path.c?  I believe path.c is GPL, so
> can this be mixed freely with BSD licensed code?  Should I put
> safe_strncpy() into a seperate file as with strlcpy()?

Yes...  Or you could avoid all of this by using a GPL'd version, like
the one from the Linux kernel (in lib/string.c).

René