severity 684191 minor tags 684191 + upstream https://github.com/atheme/charybdis/issues/5 thanks
On 2012-08-07, Jakub Wilk wrote: > According to the copyright file, src/reslib.c is licensed under 4-clause > BSD, while the rest of the code is under GPLv2 (or later). These two > licenses are incompatible. Yeah, so while I agree the 4-clause BSD license is incompatible with GPL, it just so happens this specific file comes from FreeBSD's bind distribution, which is covered by the blanked removal of the clause: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/COPYRIGHT?view=co To quote this document: """ 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 """ Upstream has made the following patch accordingly: https://github.com/atheme/charybdis/commit/deb24d2b314811cb87d3d8cc86e68c38b1dfe6cf.patch I could apply this patch, but it seems rather silly to require a freeze exception just for such a trivial patch, especially since I do not consider we are infringing the copy rights of the regents of the University of California. The upstream bug report is https://github.com/atheme/charybdis/issues/5 and has been closed. Put the severity back up if you disagree. A. -- Antoine Beaupré +++ Réseau Koumbit Networks +++ +1.514.387.6262 #208 --------------------------------------------------------------------
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