Thanks Charles. The distorm3 is a dependency for volatility and I am concerned.
Cheers, Eriberto 2016-05-31 20:50 GMT-03:00 Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org>: > > if the distorm3 upstream developer fully holds the copyright on the software, > then he can relicense as he wishes. > > However, BSD-4-Clause is a poor choice, since it is not compatible with the > GPL, which can cause trouble to GPL-licensed projects using the distorm3 > source > code and following its updates. > > Maybe you can suggest to the author to switch to a GPL-compatible version of > the BSD license ? I think that he may have picked the 4-clause version only > by > inadvertance. For instance, in the setup.py file, he declares "License :: OSI > Approved :: BSD License", however if one looks at the licenses on the OSI > website, the 4-clause BSD is not there.