Karel,
Mario,
[..]
You're absolutely right—the BSD-4-Clause (with the advertising clause)
is GPL-incompatible, which complicates things when mixing it with LGPL
code. However, since the LGPL header file includes only trivial inline
functions (such as memory allocation and linked list utilities), the
impact on the binary's final license is likely minimal. Here’s why:
Another opinion:
In 1999, Berkeley University stated:
July 22, 1999
To All Licensees, Distributors of Any Version of BSD:
As you know, certain of the Berkeley Software Distribution ("BSD")
source code files require that further distributions of products
containing all or portions of the software, acknowledge within their
advertising materials that such products contain software developed by
UC Berkeley and its contributors.
Specifically, the provision reads:
* 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of
this software
* must display the following acknowledgement:
* This product includes software developed by the
University of
* California, Berkeley and its contributors."
Effective immediately, licensees and distributors are no longer
required to include the acknowledgement within advertising materials.
Accordingly, the foregoing paragraph of those BSD Unix files containing
it is hereby deleted in its entirety.
William Hoskins
Director, Office of Technology Licensing
University of California, Berkeley
The original link
(ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change) is no
longer reachable, but the document is cited at various places on the
Internet, among other here -> https://www.freebsd.org/copyright/license/.
We have decided to add the following section to the disclosure material
we provide along with util-linux:
"The original Berkeley University 4-clause license is now referred to as
BSD-4-Clause-UC (https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-4-Clause-UC.html). Since
this software was continuously maintained after Berkeley University's
disclaimer of the acknowledgment clause, it is assumed to be licensed
under BSD-4-clause-UC. Therefore, no acknowledgment is granted and the
license is considered compatible with GPL/LGPL licenses."
Thanks
-Carsten
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Carsten Emde, OSADL
www.osadl.org
C.Emde@xxxxxxxxx
