On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 05:53, Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:23:45AM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 00:23 -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: >>> >>> Does having it sit in the source (and not build it) present any >>> problems? I don't think so, since the BSD-4 stuff does not mix with >>> the GPL-2 stuff. >> >> Its kind of grey if this is ok. The license seems to say that the >> advertising clause would only take effect if the file is used in the >> software, not just distributed as is. But its not very clear to me. > > Your question is right, Felipe, but the problem is not GPL compatibility > (which kicks in only for binary code). The problem is with DFSG not > allowing to redistribute code containing the advertising clause of BSD-4. >
How did you arrive at this conclusion? AFAIK, BSD-4 has no problems with the DFSG. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
