Pierre Chapuis wrote:
Le Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:22:03 -0300, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar> a écrit :
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"Berkeley rescinded the 3rd term (the advertising term) on 22 July 1999.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. -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D