"BSD-LBNL license"

2009-08-20 Thread David Bremner
Hi All; I'm wondering about the DFSGness of arprec (http://crd.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/mpdist/) Copying says this: , | This work was supported by the Director, Office of Science, Division | of Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences of the | U.S. Department of Energy under contract

Re: Severity of wrong GPL version?

2009-08-20 Thread Ben Finney
Matthijs Kooijman writes: > It should be evident that this issue should (and will) be fixed in the > next package upload. However, these issues will then still be present > in previous versions. Considering that they are licensing issues, > should I take extra effort to get a new version into len

Re: GCC 4.4 run-time license and non-GPLv3 compilers

2009-08-20 Thread Matthias Klose
On 16.08.2009 10:50, Luk Claes wrote: Matthias Klose wrote: On 29.04.2009 04:49, Florian Weimer wrote: * Florian Weimer: I've asked the FSF for a clarification (the second time, the first clarification resulted in the Java bytecode exception). Until we know for sure how to interpret the exce

Severity of wrong GPL version?

2009-08-20 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
Hi all, I've just discovered an error in the copyright file of a package I maintaine (openttd). The copyright file says it is distributed under GPL, version 2 or above, while upstream only distributes under GPL version 2. This issue has been present since around 2006 and affects versions in stable