Re: BSD licenses
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Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote:
> 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?
3-clausule BSD is DFSG-compatible [0], there may be infinite
BSD-licenses versions, just check they're DFSG-compatible by checking
each of these points with the license. What you see different are just
clausules the author adds and they may be restrictive at times... So if
you're unsure email to debian-legal@l.d.o
[0]
http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#head-85700b45e3e6dfe08d94e89b596be0e2a297c0c5
Regards.
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