Bug#740543: RFS: eggdrop/1.6.21-1 [ITA #698272]
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Markus Koschany <apo@gambaru.de> wrote:
> 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.
>
Ah, in that case, never mind. Thanks!
Not documenting this in d/copyright is still a blocker for this
package to be uploaded, of course.
Regards,
Vincent
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