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Re: maybe-ITP: bsdiff
On May 16 10:34, Lapo Luchini wrote:
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> Tacvek wrote:
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> > the problem: The OSF was unable to decide if the BSDPL is OSD
> > complient. It looks like they may have concluded it was not. See
> > the thread at
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/license-discuss@opensource.org/msg04670.html
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> Reading that thread a while ago I intended they decided it was a
> "strange" license (trying to be a BSD that avoids the "GPL taint" it
> got "tainted" in pretty much the same way, under some points of view,
> but the author in that thread states that smoe sentences are to be
> interpreted differently, but that's not clear at all), but it seems to
> me that they mainly were arguing its validity as a license tout-court
> (given those not-so-clear statements).
>
> Of course here the problem is not if the BSDPL is more or less "open",
> if the clause says "complies with the Open Source definition" maybe
> the problem is real...
>
> ??????? IANAL, I leave all those thinking to someone who is more
If in doubt, don't put it into the distro. There is doubt, apparently.
Corinna
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