[Buildroot] [PATCH 4/4] ngrep: add license information

Luca Ceresoli luca at lucaceresoli.net
Tue Oct 15 13:10:41 UTC 2013


Hi Thomas,

Thomas De Schampheleire:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at uclibc.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>   >> NGREP_SITE = http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ngrep/ngrep/$(NGREP_VERSION)
>>   >> +NGREP_LICENSE = BSD-Style
>>
>>   Thomas> Is it possible to map this onto any of the standard abbreviations as
>>   Thomas> specified here:
>>   Thomas> http://buildroot.uclibc.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#legal-info-list-licenses
>>
>>   Thomas> i.e. BSD-2c, BSD-3c, or BSD-4c ?
>>
>> The closest match is BSD-4c as it contains the dreaded advertising
>> clause, but it isn't a perfect match:
>>
>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2000/11/msg00087.html
>>
>> Maybe we should use 'BSD-4c-like'?
>
>
> That sounds ok to me.

To me as well. It clearly expresses it's similar to BSD-4c but not
equal.

-- 
Luca



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