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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Gerardo Exequiel
Pozzi<vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> 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 "Berkeley rescinded the 3rd term (the advertising term) on 22 July 1999.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.

You think we should just remove the package? We have alternate tftp
implementations, right?