Bug#284340: base-files: Please remove reference to UC in BSD license and add other licenses

Package: base-files Version: 3.0.2 Severity: wishlist Please remove reference to a specific copyright holder (The Regents of the University of California) in /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD and rename it 3-clause-BSD. Including only one narrow variant of the BSD license seems highly

Re: Bug#284340: base-files: Please remove reference to UC in BSD license and add other licenses

reassign 284340 debian-policy thanks On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Francesco Poli wrote: Package: base-files Version: 3.0.2 Severity: wishlist Please remove reference to a specific copyright holder (The Regents of the University of California) in /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD and rename it

Re: GPL and command-line libraries

Henning Makholm (with my emphasis): If library L provides to program P an well-defined generic service with a simple black-box interface, and it is provided in a way that is essentially independent that the client is P rather than an unrelated program Q, then I think it is very hard to argue

Re: Bug#284340: base-files: Please remove reference to UC in BSD license and add other licenses

On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 06:35:03PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: IMHO, the licenses you propose to be added to /usr/share/common-licenses are short enough that no disk space is saved at all by having a single copy in base-files. For this reason I think we could even remove the current BSD

Re: Bug#284190: ITP: drdsl -- DSL Assistant for AVM DSL/ISDN-Controllers

[Just realized that I only sent this to Matthias Klose and the bug, but not to debian-legal. This mail is to debian-legal only to avoid duplicates; Mail-Followup-To set to everyone.] Josh Triplett wrote: Matthias Klose wrote: CC'ing debian-legal, please could you have a look at the license?