Am Mittwoch 24 Juni 2009 schrieben Sie:

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Gerardo Exequiel

Pozzi wrote:

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Pierre Chapuis wrote:

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Le Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:22:03 -0300,

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi a écrit :

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Hi,

I just do a quick scan of soft linked with readline and I think that these two pkgs that are linked with readline violates GPL:

extra/tftp-hpa community/ngspice

Both have the "old" BSD (4-clause) license and is linked with readline that is GPL, so there is an incompatibility [#1]

For tftp-hpa, the license used in the PKGBUILD looks wrong. tftp-hpa is "available under the same license as the "OpenBSD" operating system", and OpenBSD uses a 3-clause license.

I guess the packager just copied a part of http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html without looking further :

"Berkeley rescinded the 3rd term (the advertising term) on 22 July 1999. Verbatim copies of the Berkeley license in the OpenBSD tree have that term removed."

Hi,

See the source code, is "old" BSD, or maybe the author forgot to update the license ? for example tftp/main.c uses 4-clause and uses readline.

You think we should just remove the package? We have alternate tftp implementations, right? Hrm, i think pxelinux needs this tftp and gentoo builds it the same way, if we start to pick on those it's horrible. I never heared that bsd licensed software isn't allowed to link against gpl software. greetings tpowa

-- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org