BSD license issues
Hello,
I recently posted an ITP to debian-devel (Bug #88567) for scanssh that
included the following questions. I did not receive any reply which sounds
ok to me for the first question about the -E option, but I am not sure what
to do about the BSD license that is not identical to the one in
/usr/share/common-licenses. Someone please advise. Thanks!
----
- Upstream agreed with me that the semantics of the -E option (whether to
exit if the exclude file is not specified/found) should change, and
supplied me a patch from the CVS. I want to avoid changing this option
between releases, but this makes my package inconsistent with the
published version. It *is* documented as the new usage, but does anyone
think that this is a particularly bad idea?
- License is BSD, except that it diffs with the license in
/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD:
---------------------------- C U T H E R E ----------------------------
diff bsd /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
0a1
> Copyright (c) The Regents of the University of California.
11,12c12,14
< 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
< derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
---
> 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
> may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
> without specific prior written permission.
14c16
< THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND
---
> THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
17c19
< ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE
---
> ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
---------------------------- C U T H E R E ----------------------------
I must assume this is ok, but since it does differ, do I need to go to
debian-legal to be sure? I don't need to include the full license, do I?
----
Rene Weber
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