Re: Bug#837666: Fwd: Bug#837666: udunits: license change

2016-09-14 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:14:49 +1000 Ben Finney wrote: [...] > Such a clause is IMO a restriction on the free redistribution of the > work: it retroactively revokes the grant of copyright license to the > recipient, based not on any violation of copyright. > > For comparison, the GPLv3 and

Re: Bug#837666: Fwd: Bug#837666: udunits: license change

2016-09-13 Thread Ben Finney
Thank you for raising this issue. Alastair McKinstry writes: > As indicated below, the license on a package I maintain has changed, > adding a new clause to the 3-clause BSD license. (Hence making this license *not* a BSD license as commonly understood.) > Can