License problem with files in dlls/icmp/

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.com
Wed Jan 16 12:13:33 CST 2002


Ilja Kamps <ikarus at 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.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com




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