gofrs/flock

3rd clause of BSD refers to "linode-netint"

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The third clause of the attached BSD license reads:

  • Neither the name of linode-netint nor the names of its
    contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from
    this software without specific prior written permission.

Presumably this is a copy/paste error, rather than this software actually deriving from linode-netint (if it is, then the appropriate copyright should also be added).

Given this has already been licensed for ~4 years using a 3rd clause that is not terribly effective, I'd recommend to just relicense to a 2-clause BSD rather than changing the reference to "flock".

Ping? I'd like to package this for Debian and would prefer if this was resolved (and a 0.7.2 cut) before than after :) Thanks for all of your efforts!

@paravoid Apologies. Finally realizing how messed up my email filters were and I missed this for a super long time.

Are you still intending to package this for Debian?

@paravoid v0.7.3 was cut in reaction to this issue. You may also want to wait to v0.8.0, if you intend to package this, as that would be AIX support (from #40).

@paravoid v0.8.0 has been released to include AIX support.