[Pkg-openssl-devel] Why is OpenSSL not in non-free?

[Simon Josefsson]

Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> writes:

> - the 3-clause BSD license is considered free
> - the 4-clause BSD license with the advertising clause is considered
>   non-free

I don't think this holds.  The advertising clause in the 4-clause BSD
license is GPL incompatible according to ('Original BSD license'):

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#NonFreeSoftwareLicense

However that doesn't mean work licensed under the 4-clause BSD license
is non-free, which is explicitly mentioned in the link above.

/Simon