Bug#97148: plan to maintain xipmsg, gipmsg

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Sun, 19 Aug 2001 04:42:14 +0900,
Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > Thanks. I would make xipmsg with unofficial group patch.
> 
> Verify that unofficial group patch is not GPL.
> xipmsg is BSD license with advertizement clause.

Yes, I notice this. Unofficial group patch has
no mention about its license. I imagine they 
also released under BSD license, but, sure,
I must contact him and indentify its licence.

> > > Also, please check gipmsg, the last time I checked, it did not have a
> > > packagable license.
> > 
> > Hm, I check gipmsg. It seems that it cannot be package...
> > Alternatively, there is gtkipmsg. It seems it's ok
> > to be package, so I plan to intent to package gtkipmsg.
> 
> neither gtkipmsg nor gipmsg is suitable to be packaged.
> I have contacted the upstream authors to no avail.
> 
> They have an invalid licensing clause mixing BSD with advertizing clause
> and GPL, which is bad news.

Ouch! I didn't notice this. 
You are right that they mix BSD with *advertizing clause* and GPL.
Hmm, all xip messenger family has this problem...

Thanks for your indication. I missed.

Regards,
-- gotom