Re: Bug#964815: it looks like dprof2calltree cannot be distributed with a GPL-2 work
* Nicholas D. Steeves:
> Hi,
>
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 07:48:31PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
>>
>>> it would still not be DFSG-free, because it
>>> fails the "desert island test" for snail mail. Were OmniTI Computer
>>> Consulting would accept email, it would also fail the "dissident test".
>>
>> This is the first time I see someone claiming BSD-4-clause would not
>> be distributable.
>>
>
> Well, BSD-4-clause isn't on the list of DFSG-approved licenses...
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses
The DFSG announcement in
<https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/1997/msg00017.html>
predates the removal of the advertising clause by almost two years.
As a result, there isn't any ambiguity at all whether the original
4-clause BSD license is DFSG-compliant or not: At the time, the BSD
license still had the advertising clause, and yet it is explicitly
considered as free.
And the Internet Archive agrees:
<https://web.archive.org/web/19990417142705/http://www.debian.org/misc/bsd.license>
(The webwml history does not contain this version of the file,
probably because it wasn't in CVS at first.)
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