[Fedora-legal-list] ftp-0.17-51.fc12 and libreadline

[Julius Davies]

Hi,

I see the ftp-0.17-51.fc12.i686.rpm says it's "BSD With Advertising."
This isn't the problem:  it's all UC-Berkeley, so it can be relicensed
to remove the "With Advertising" clause.


My question is this:

I also see that ftp links against libreadline.so:

$ ldd ftp-0.17-51.fc12.i686/usr/bin/ftp
	libreadline.so.6


Is that okay for BSD code to dynamically link against GPL libraries?



And a footnotes of one more package (rpcbind) that appears to have
wrong info in its RPM license attribute:


rpmquery --info -p rpcbind-0.2.0-4.fc12.i686.rpm
License: GPL
But we can only find BSD3 and BSD4 files inside it:
rpcbind-0.2.0-4/rpcbind-0.2.0/src/check_bound.c;BSD3;,;0
rpcbind-0.2.0-4/rpcbind-0.2.0/src/pmap_svc.c;BSD3;,;0
rpcbind-0.2.0-4/rpcbind-0.2.0/src/rpcbind.c;BSD3;,;0
rpcbind-0.2.0-4/rpcbind-0.2.0/src/rpcb_stat.c;BSD3;,;0
rpcbind-0.2.0-4/rpcbind-0.2.0/src/rpcb_svc_4.c;BSD3;,;0
rpcbind-0.2.0-4/rpcbind-0.2.0/src/rpcb_svc.c;BSD3;,;0
rpcbind-0.2.0-4/rpcbind-0.2.0/src/rpcb_svc_com.c;BSD3;,;0
rpcbind-0.2.0-4/rpcbind-0.2.0/src/rpcinfo.c;BSD3;,;0
rpcbind-0.2.0-4/rpcbind-0.2.0/src/security.c;NONE
rpcbind-0.2.0-4/rpcbind-0.2.0/src/util.c;BSD4;,;0
rpcbind-0.2.0-4/rpcbind-0.2.0/src/warmstart.c;BSD3;,;0




-- 
yours,

Julius Davies
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