Andreas, debian-legal: On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 03:21:01AM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:26:19PM -0500, Chris Ruffin wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Version: N/A; reported 2002-03-26 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > * Package name : alliance > > Version : 4.0.6, 4.9.4 > > Upstream Author : alliance-support@asim.lip6.fr > > * URL : http://www-asim.lip6.fr/alliance/ > > * License : GPL > > >From file LICENCE: > > | Alliance is freely available under the terms of the GNU General > | Public License. Please read the files COPYING-2.0 and COPYING.LIB-2.0. > | (More info at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/) Alliance binaries, cells > | libraries, documentation and source code are covered by GPL, except some > | Alliance's base libraries which are LGPL. > | > | You are welcome to use the software package even for commercial designs > | without any fee. You are just required to mention : > | > | "Designed with Alliance CAD system, Copyright (C) 1991, 2000 Université > | Pierre et Marie Curie" > > The same can be found on the web page. Before you upload it you'll have > to sort out this self-contradicting license with that university. The > advertising requirement has to be removed without replacement, otherwise > they shouldn't be bragging about it being GPL because it isn't. > I was a little concerned about that as well, but my (uninformed and possibly incorrect) conclusion was that this contradiction in their licensing text was a dispute between the developers of the software and the author of the GPL. AFAIK the addition of the requirement to mention the BSD-style acclamation doesn't violate anything in the DFSG, and to my knowledge doesn't invalidate the GPL. After all the BSD license meets the DFSG. Is it really up to us to resolve this? -- Chris Ruffin <cmruffin@debian.org>
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