[973] in athena10
4-clause BSD license for "rs" and "lam"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Sat Jan 24 20:09:38 2009
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:08:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: debathena@mit.edu
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Hello,
While fixing up the copyright files for all the packages, I noticed that
"rs" and "lam" are listed as having a 4-clause BSD license. This is
problematic, both because it's a bad license in general, and in particular
because we'd certainly not be in compliance with their advertising clause
when we advertise Debathena or Athena 10 without mentioning them.
Since it looks like it's Berkeley's software, it is quite likely that
their general amnesty for deleting the problematic advertising clause
applies. Someone should confirm this and commit a change updating our
debian/copyright files for those packages appropriately.
-Tim Abbott
