License headers in argus and argus-clients sources

[Carter Bullard]

Many of the banners are from files used for convenience.  None are " unique " so I'm confident I can find GPL equivalents.

This has never been a problem before, so I'm curious if removal of these are critical ?  Releasing BSD licensed code under GPL should be legal, but not GPL under BSD ?

Carter

On Apr 12, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Jan Matějek <jmatejek at suse.com> wrote:

> hello,
> 
> Dne 12.4.2012 13:13, Carter Bullard napsal(a):
>> Hey Jan,
>> I've corrected the errant headers. Regarding the files that have BSD headers
>> mentioned in the Novell bugzilla report you referenced:  I don't have a Novell
>> account so I can't see the bugzilla reference that you included.  Could you list
>> the files that need to be reviewed?  I'll make the appropriate changes today.
> 
> there is quite a lot of them, just grep for "advertising materials".
> 
> I'm not completely sure whether you can just remove those headers - if the files in question are really based on BSD 4-clause licensed code, it might be that you would have to rewrite/remove the code or relicense the rest of it. Or say that the license is "GPL with exception for some files" ... i don't know, IANAL. Perhaps it is possible to ignore/drop the advertising clause, Berkeley apparently allows that. Not sure about CMU though.
> 
> Of course, if all the code is pretty much yours anyway, it should not be a problem.
> 
> see:
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OriginalBSD
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatIsCompatible
> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html
> for details
> 
> regards
> Jan
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jan Matejek
> package maintainer, SUSE Linux