tags 725470 + patch thanks On October 7, 2013 at 12:13AM +0900, tats (at debian.org) wrote: > If the copyright holder is the University of California, Berkeley, > the advertising clause can be deleted.
Patch attached. Thanks, -- Tatsuya Kinoshita
From 786bb2c7ce8d18278fdb85c56885539ad5eebb49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tatsuya Kinoshita <t...@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 19:34:13 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Delete the advertising clause from BSD-4-clause (Closes:
725470)
---
debian/copyright | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index 15fd4a9..9c7ec9b 100644
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -25,10 +25,6 @@ Some of the code in this package is:
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
- 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
- must display the following acknowledgement:
- This product includes software developed by the University of
- California, Berkeley and its contributors.
4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
without specific prior written permission.
@@ -44,6 +40,35 @@ Some of the code in this package is:
LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
SUCH DAMAGE.
+Comment:
+ Delete the clause 3 (the advertising clause), as per announce
+ by the University of California, Berkeley
+ <ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change>:
+ July 22, 1999
+ .
+ To All Licensees, Distributors of Any Version of BSD:
+ .
+ As you know, certain of the Berkeley Software Distribution ("BSD") source
+ code files require that further distributions of products containing all or
+ portions of the software, acknowledge within their advertising materials
+ that such products contain software developed by UC Berkeley and its
+ contributors.
+ .
+ Specifically, the provision reads:
+ .
+ " * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
+ * must display the following acknowledgement:
+ * This product includes software developed by the University of
+ * California, Berkeley and its contributors."
+ .
+ Effective immediately, licensees and distributors are no longer required to
+ include the acknowledgement within advertising materials. Accordingly, the
+ foregoing paragraph of those BSD Unix files containing it is hereby deleted
+ in its entirety.
+ .
+ William Hoskins
+ Director, Office of Technology Licensing
+ University of California, Berkeley
Other parts are copyright Alexey Kuznetsov, and are distributed under the
GNU General Public Licenses (version 2 or later), which is available in
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