Bug#877364: pjproject: source file licensed as BSD-4-clause and GPL-2+ effectively unlicensed

Mon Nov 13 07:27:38 UTC 2017

Control: tags -1 fixed-upstream
Control: forwarded -1 https://trac.pjsip.org/repos/ticket/2062

On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 01:27:38PM +0100, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:

> > > The file pjlib/src/pj/sock_linux_kernel.c is licensed as both
> > > BSD-4-clause and GPL-2+. Not dual-licensed, but separately declared.
> > > Those licenses are incompatible, and therefore the licensing is useless.
> > 
> > I'm far from being a license expert, so thanks for looking into this.
> > 
> > I have forwarded this to the upstream mailinglist.
> 
> No answer yet from the devs, I'll keep pushing.

According to upstream this is dead code [1] and has been removed for the
next upstream version.

Bernhard

[1]
http://lists.pjsip.org/pipermail/pjsip_lists.pjsip.org/2017-November/020323.html