On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 02:15:49PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > I was thinking on packaging honeyd [1] a small daemon to simulate servers > and create a virtual honeynet. I'm, however, not completely sure the license > is DFSG-free. > [ Old 4-clause BSD license ] > > I'm ok with 1, 2 and 4. But 3 (and advertisement clause) I'm not sure about. > I've searched the list but havent't found any information on wether > advertisement > clauses are ok or not. The latest license mentioning an advertisement > clause [2] > wasn't turned down because of this. > > Should this go to non-free or free? This is free. It's the 4-clause BSD license. It is, however, GPL-incompatible, so if you're linking GPL software with it, that's not ok. I'm sure you know the drill. It's the same with OpenSSL. -- Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> 0x560553e7 "Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all." --Douglas Adams
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