Pierre Chapuis wrote: > Le Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:22:03 -0300, > Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386@xxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > > >> Hi, >> >> I just do a quick scan of soft linked with readline and I think that >> these two pkgs that are linked with readline violates GPL: >> >> extra/tftp-hpa >> community/ngspice >> >> Both have the "old" BSD (4-clause) license and is linked with readline >> that is GPL, so there is an incompatibility [#1] >> > > For tftp-hpa, the license used in the PKGBUILD looks wrong. tftp-hpa is "available under the same license as the "OpenBSD" operating system", and OpenBSD uses a 3-clause license. > > I guess the packager just copied a part of http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html without looking further : > > "Berkeley rescinded the 3rd term (the advertising term) on 22 July 1999. Verbatim copies of the Berkeley license in the OpenBSD tree have that term removed." > > Hi, See the source code, is "old" BSD, or maybe the author forgot to update the license ? for example tftp/main.c uses 4-clause and uses readline. -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D
