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Re: RFS: unionfs-fuse



Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@gmx.de> writes:
> Hallo Kapil,

>>  - it contains the complete BSD licence instead of refering to
>>    common-licenses

> Well, this is a problem. In /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD the first line is

> Copyright (c) The Regents of the University of California.
> All rights reserved.

> I don't see why the University of California should have any rights to
> the code. Well, actually they have the right to two of the files we took
> over from BSD, but certainly not to all the others.  Both licenses are
> almost identical, but common-licenses/BSD specifically is about the
> *university* license, while ours refers to the real authors.

You're correct.  You can only use /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD for code
that's actually owned by the Regents of the University of California, not
for other code licensed under the same license.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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