[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo/FreeBSD: license problems require a development pause

[Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò]

On Sunday 07 January 2007 02:47, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> This is a very sad blog by my side, although I hope this can be cleared up
> soon so that I don’t have to be this sad anymore in the future.
Edit: Timothy (drizzt) found us the escape route. Applying 
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change we can legally 
drop the clause 3 of 4-clause BSD license, and be done with it. I’m writing 
in this moment the code to do this, but it might require a new stage to come 
out. Anyway, the problem is solved, and I think I’ll mail FSF for them to 
actually put that note somewhere, as it doesn’t seem to be that documented 
around here.

This *should* cover our asses about the problem, although I'm still looking if 
there are sources that are redistributed under 4-clause BSD license, and for 
which the license change is not effective (i.e.: they are not under UCB 
copyright).

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