License problem with files in dlls/icmp/
Dan Kegel
dank at kegel.com
Thu Jan 17 17:59:00 CST 2002
Alexandre Julliard wrote:
>
> 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.
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
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