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--- Begin Message ---Hi guys, I'm catching up on gNewSense bugs and I'm now looking at the Mersenne Twister bug [1] again. At the time it was found to be under the Artistic License. At Rubén's request the copyright holders relicensed it to GPL [2]. At what I think is the current homepage of the implementation [3] I found old GPL versions [4]. The "newest version of original authors" [5] is licensed under the Modified BSD license. File crypto/mersenne/mt19937db.c in Trisquel's db4.8 looks like it's still the one from the upstream Berkeley DB project, carrying the Artistic License notice. The recommended fix in the NONFSDG list [6] says to either remove the package or use a GPL version of the file. So far, gNewSense and Trisquel have done neither. What do you see as a solution, considering that packages like exim4-base depend on db and replacing the file means reintegrating it without looking too hard at the current file in db? [1] https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?29840 [2] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2010-05/msg00000.html [3] http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/emt.html [4] http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/VERSIONS/C-LANG/ver980409.html [5] http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/VERSIONS/C-LANG/c-lang.html [6] http://libreplanet.org/wiki/NONFSDG#Oracle_Berkeley_DB Regards, Sam Geeraerts gNewSense _______________________________________________ Trisquel-devel mailing list [email protected] http://listas.trisquel.info/mailman/listinfo/trisquel-devel
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