Bug#688095: regexp/yfnmatch.h is non free

Thibaut Paumard paumard at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Sep 19 12:41:28 UTC 2012


Le 19/09/2012 12:43, David Bremner a écrit :
> Thibaut Paumard <paumard at users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>> regexp/yfnmatch.h is still under non-DFSG 4-clause BSD license. It is clearly a
>> left-over from older times as the rest of Yorick is under 3-clause BSD license.
> The 4-clause BSD license is not "non-DFSG". See
> http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/.
>
> Adjusting the bug severity accordingly.
Thanks for the clarification.

However, 4-clause BSD is incompatible with the GPL, which covers many
Yorick plug-ins.

Regards, Thibaut.



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