Re: [Bug-tar] GPL-Incompatible Free Software License ?

[Karl Berry]

Hi Marco, Sergey,

    ... and use acknowledge that the
       software was developed by the University of California, Berkeley. ...
    "
    It is very similar to Original BSD License.

In fact, it is exactly the original BSD license, as far as I can see,
this code having been originally written at UCB.

You're right that this is a problem, on the face of it.  But since
Berkeley later rescinded that clause for all their software, it's not a
real problem, and we can just change the license to modified BSD.  The
FSF lawyers advised us that this was fine to do.  This same issue came
up with GNU indent semi-recently.

Sergey, can you make that change?

(Alternatively, probably the rmt.c in FreeBSD or some other BSD could be
used, but that would presumably be some work to merge.)

Thanks,
Karl


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