Yeah, this was my thought, too, since I found no permission to use this file in a project.
The best thing should be to ask the upstream author to replace the file, shouldn't it? Jan Am 1. Juni 2016 00:57:43 MESZ, schrieb Riley Baird <bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch>: >On Tue, 31 May 2016 23:51:52 +0200 >Jan Luca Naumann <j.naum...@fu-berlin.de> wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> I want to package the tool sedutil >> (https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil). >> >> When writing the debian/copyright file I found a possible file that >> could be problematic to be used together with GPL-3 code: >> >https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil/blob/master/Common/log.h >> >> Is this a file a problem or can it be used and distributed under the >> terms of GPL-3+? > >It seems like it's a problem as it is a derivative work of Dr. Dobb's, >which just says "All rights reserved".