Hi, On Tue, 2026-06-16 at 08:42 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > So maybe the DFSG team could decide that we gave an exception to the > DFSG to these copyright holders only, that we note that it pushes on our > users the duty to check the copyright file of every package they use in > case they want to mention them in advertisements, and that because this > is too unreasonable we will not grant exceptions anymore to new > packages, for the 4-clause BSD and for any other similar license?
Oh, and if people want to label the BSD-4 license as non-free, please go the proper way and change the DFSG to remove the (originally 4- clause) BSD license from this clause: | 10. Example Licenses | | The "GPL", "BSD", and "Artistic" licenses are examples of licenses | that we consider "free". Otherwise they should be regarded as free even though all of them have clauses that one would not want in new licenses. You could also explicitly include the list of copyright holders which get an exception there. ;-) Ansgar
