Re: Conflicting licenses GPLv2 and BSD 4-clause

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Hi, I wonder what is the status of this issue?

Bernhard Schmidt <berni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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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