Hi, On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 04:46:23PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > On 06/02/2008, Jean Parpaillon wrote: > > 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this > > software must display the following acknowledgement: > > This product includes software developed at the University of > > Tennessee, Knoxville, Innovative Computing Laboratories. > > > > 4. The name of the University, the name of the Laboratory, or the > > names of its contributors may not be used to endorse or promote > > products derived from this software without specific written > > permission. > > -------------------- > > > > I've read DFSG and I'm not sure if items 3 and 4 are problematic. Can > > someone help me ? If it's not ok, may it be in contrib ? > > See http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses, BSD-3 (without point 3.) > isn't a problem. > > The advertising requirement (3.) is a problem, though. Just to make this clear: the 4-clause BSD license is not a problem in respect to DFSG-freeness - it's perfectly fine to include BSD 4-clause licensed software in Debian. However, the license is incompatible to the GPL, so you may not mix BSD 4-clause and GPL code. Cheers, Sebastian -- Sebastian "tokkee" Harl +++ GnuPG-ID: 0x8501C7FC +++ http://tokkee.org/ Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
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