Re: [htdig-dev] Licensing issues...

[Robert R. <ri...@li...>]

Gabriele Bartolini wrote:

>Hi Robert,
>
>   I am not the ideal person to give you an answer about licensing.
>However, I remember that for Berkeley DB ht://Dig has a special license
>(db/LICENSE), which allows version 3.0.55 (patched) to be distributed
>along with ht://Dig (and only with it).
>
>   It is an "ad-hoc" and special license and I personally would not
>mention it in the package description. I would therefore leave GPL
>(LGPL).
>  
>
Dear Gabriele, dear List,

unfortunately I have to.

In there I have:

1 x 3 Clause BSD License ('Sleepycat Software Inc")
2 x 4 Clause BSD  (" The President and Fellows of Harvard University.", 
" The Regents of the University of California")
  
According to http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
/Note/: The advertising clause in the license appearing on BSD Unix 
files was officially rescinded 
<ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change> by the 
Director of the Office of Technology Licensing of the University of 
California on July 22 1999. He states that clause 3 is "hereby deleted 
in its entirety."

Do you think we can settle for : 3x 3 clause BSD license for this 
version of Berkeley DB with its modifications?

This would leave us witth the following:

Berkeley DB                                        3-clause BSD
configure.guess/confiuigure.sub              GPL v2
htdig itself                                              GPL v2

>Please guys say yours ... :-)
>
>Ciao and thank you Robert!
>-Gabriele
>
Robert