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Re: wall's license?



On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 04:06:16PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
>   With a testing machine,
>   
>     $ dpkg -p bsdutils | tail -2
>      Included are: logger, renice, replay, script, wall
>   
>   According to /usr/share/doc/bsdutils/copyright,
> 
>     It was downloaded from
> 	ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/home/aeb/linux-local/utils/util-linux/
> 
> 
> 	Copyright:
> 
> 	getopt, more, pg, and whereis may be redistributed under the terms
> 	of the
> 	UCB BSD license found on Debian systems in the file
> 	/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
> 
> 	Everything else may be redistributed under the terms of the GNU GPL
> 	Version 2 or later found on Debian systems in the file
> 	/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
> 
>   Yet both wall.c and wall.1 seems to contain the UCB BSD license.
> Shouldn't it be under the UCB BSD license?

Yes, they should. And the third clause of the license should be patched
out. File a bug.

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Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> 0x560553e7
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