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Bug#740543: RFS: eggdrop/1.6.21-1 [ITA #698272]



Hi Vincent,

On 12.04.2014 11:10, Vincent Cheng wrote:
[...]
> 
> debian/copyright is missing a few copyright holders + license
> statements, e.g. LGPL-2+ for src/compat/gnu_strftime.c and (partially)
> 4-clause BSD for src/compat/inet_aton.c (actually, the latter is
> problematic because most of the upstream source is GPL-2+ licensed,
> which is incompatible with 4-clause BSD [1]). That's actually another
> RC bug right there...

the 4-clause BSD license should not be problematic in this case since
the copyright holder is the University of California. They granted all
licensees the right to delete the paragraph about "advertising
materials" thus making the license compatible with the GPL.

ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change

I think it is sufficient to document this fact with a comment in
debian/copyright and to ask upstream to remove the offending paragraph.

Regards,

Markus

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