Conflicting licenses GPLv2 and BSD 4-clause

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Hi,

a severe bug was recently opened in Debian
(https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=877364) which
threatens pjproject to be removed due to licensing issues (as you may
know, Debian is very strict regarding correct licenses).

pjproject as a whole is GPLv2+. However, there are two functions in
pjlib/src/pj/sock_linux_kernel.c that have apparently been taken from
BSD, and are BSD 4-Clause licensed. This license is incompatible with GPL.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html.en#OriginalBSD
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/bsd.html

/*
 * Permission to steal inet_ntoa() and inet_aton() as long as this
notice below
 * is included:
 */
/*

As far as I understand this these are pretty much standard functions. I
think the best solution would be to copy them from a GPLv2+ source and
drop the BSD 4-clause license. But I'm far from being a license expert.

Bernhard

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