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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