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Hi Remi,
The copyright holder appears to be stating that you can't take the code,
remove the BSD-3 license, and replace the BSD License with a GPL or LGPL
license. If that's so, that's correct. One CAN incorporate code licensed
under the 3-clause BSD license into GPLed programs, but one MUST include
the 3-clause BSD license text when one distributes such combined code.
However, there is some ambiguity in the sentence you've noted with
regard to the intent of the copyright holder. Perhaps it would be
worthwhile to contact that person to get a written clarification?
Adam
On 03/16/2014 03:40 AM, Remi Collet wrote:
Hi,
Reviewing an old package [1] , I notice the LICENSE text (BSD-3) from
the headers [2] includes:
This code cannot simply be copied and put under the GNU Public License
or any other GPL-like (LGPL, GPL2) License.
Is it acceptable ?
If not... will have to drop this package from fedora...
Remi
[1]
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/php-pecl-radius
[2]
https://github.com/LawnGnome/php-radius/blob/master/radius.c
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