Hi,
As indicated below, the license on a package I maintain has changed,
adding a new clause to the 3-clause BSD license.
Can debian-legal please review and comment on the clause:
4) This license shall terminate automatically and you may no longer exercise
any of the rights granted to you by this license as of the date you
commence an action, including a cross-claim or counterclaim, against
the copyright holder or any contributor alleging that this software
infringes a patent. This termination provision shall not apply for an
action alleging patent infringement by combinations of this software with
other software or hardware.
Thanks
Alastair McKinstry
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Subject: Bug#837666: udunits: license change
Resent-Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 11:57:02 +0000
Resent-From: Klaus Zimmermann <[email protected]>
Resent-To: [email protected]
Resent-CC: [email protected], Alastair McKinstry
<[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 13:54:47 +0200
From: Klaus Zimmermann <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Klaus Zimmermann <[email protected]>,
[email protected]
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Source: udunits
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
on packaging a different, new package that uses excerpts from udunits,
I noticed that the copyright information in debian/copyright does not
agree with that in (upstream) COPYRIGHT.
This seems to go back to upstream commit
https://github.com/Unidata/UDUNITS-2/commit/b362869285b629fa52b3fc464c58d74b9d6e362b
The new license is very close to a 3-clause bsd license, but adds a
fourth clause; therefore discussion on debian-legal might be indicated.
Regards,
Klaus Zimmermann
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