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

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

Pierre Chapuis wrote:
> 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 "Berkeley rescinded the 3rd term (the advertising term) on 22 July 1999.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."
>
>   
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.

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