It appaers that files under dlls/icmp/ are licensed under the BSD license and not the X11 license, this might be a problem as wine does not honor the advertisment part and also it makes wine GPL incompaitible, I would consider this a serious problem. Either we honor the advertisment part and note that wine is not directly GPL compaitible (GPL doesn't allow such texts) or we reimplement that dll.
I hope I got it right.
Ilja Kamps ikarus@ikarus.ath.cx writes:
It appaers that files under dlls/icmp/ are licensed under the BSD license and not the X11 license, this might be a problem as wine does not honor the advertisment part and also it makes wine GPL incompaitible, I would consider this a serious problem. Either we honor the advertisment part and note that wine is not directly GPL compaitible (GPL doesn't allow such texts) or we reimplement that dll.
UC Berkeley has announced some time ago that the advertising clause on their code can be considered null and void and removed, so that's not really a problem. We could probably remove the clause to make it clear.
Alexandre Julliard wrote:
Ilja Kamps ikarus@ikarus.ath.cx writes:
It appaers that files under dlls/icmp/ are licensed under the BSD license and not the X11 license, this might be a problem as wine does not honor the advertisment part and also it makes wine GPL incompaitible, I would consider this a serious problem. Either we honor the advertisment part and note that wine is not directly GPL compaitible (GPL doesn't allow such texts) or we reimplement that dll.
UC Berkeley has announced some time ago that the advertising clause on their code can be considered null and void and removed, so that's not really a problem. We could probably remove the clause to make it clear.
Cool. Can you provide a URL that documents this? It'd be handy for a lot of projects that use BSD code but still think they need to credit UCB. - Dan
Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com writes:
Cool. Can you provide a URL that documents this? It'd be handy for a lot of projects that use BSD code but still think they need to credit UCB.
The official document is here: ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
It has also been discussed on slashdot: http://slashdot.org/articles/99/09/02/189210.shtml
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