On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi<vmlinuz386@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 "Berkeley rescinded the 3rd term (the advertising term) on 22 July 1999.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. You think we should just remove the package? We have alternate tftp implementations, right?
