On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Markus Koschany <a...@gambaru.de> wrote: > Hi Vincent, > > On 12.04.2014 11:10, Vincent Cheng wrote: > [...] >> >> debian/copyright is missing a few copyright holders + license >> statements, e.g. LGPL-2+ for src/compat/gnu_strftime.c and (partially) >> 4-clause BSD for src/compat/inet_aton.c (actually, the latter is >> problematic because most of the upstream source is GPL-2+ licensed, >> which is incompatible with 4-clause BSD [1]). That's actually another >> RC bug right there... > > the 4-clause BSD license should not be problematic in this case since > the copyright holder is the University of California. They granted all > licensees the right to delete the paragraph about "advertising > materials" thus making the license compatible with the GPL. > > ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change > > I think it is sufficient to document this fact with a comment in > debian/copyright and to ask upstream to remove the offending paragraph. >
Ah, in that case, never mind. Thanks! Not documenting this in d/copyright is still a blocker for this package to be uploaded, of course. Regards, Vincent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
