[arch-general] readline GPL violation on two pkgs?

[Pierre Chapuis]

Le Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:22:03 -0300,
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at 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"Berkeley rescinded the 3rd term (the advertising term) on 22 July 1999.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."

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catwell