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Re: FWD: Bug#121916: analog should be in non-free



On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:21:24AM +0000, Stephen Turner wrote:
> The question of whether to change now to the GPL, or dual with GPL, is
> different though, and I don't think it can be done. I would have to contact
> all the contributing authors. But more seriously, analog includes code from
> libraries under BSD-style licences with copyright clauses, which are not
> GPL-compatible. (No, I can't just depend on the libraries being installed
> and link to them, because analog is supposed to be OS-independent.)

You mean advertising clauses, right?  The old 4-clause BSD license?

Just a BSD-style license with a copyright *notice* doesn't render
something GPL-incompatible.

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