Re: BSD licenses

["Gudjon I. Gudjonsson" <gudjon@gudjon.org>]

Hi Sandro
   And thanks for the answer
> >    I am trying to package software that contains code with different BSD
> > licenses. However, none of the licenses are similar to
> > /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
>
> So simply include those licenses in debian/copyright along with the
> files they're appling to.
>
> > Is there any homepage with versioned BSD licenses that I can refer to?
>
> If your intent is to add those links into debian/copyright, please
> don't: web pages can change, and even become unavailable with time, so
> the license text would be unavailable too; and we would give chance to
> read legal stuff to people with no network connection.

The problem is not to copy the licenses to the copyright file but the question 
is rather if the BSD license has some official homepage and if the different 
BSD licenses are version numbered so I can check if the licenses in the 
program I am packaging are similar to one of them.

What I know is that there is an old BSD license which is not GPL compatible 
but a new one is. How many BSD licenses exist? Which are GPL compatible?

Thanks
Gudjon