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ilanschnell / bsdiff4

binary diff and patch using the BSDIFF4-format
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license? #4

Closed fyears closed 8 years ago

fyears commented 11 years ago

Please add a license file. ;-)

Is this code licensed under 2-clause BSD license?

ilanschnell commented 8 years ago

Yes, BSD license.

gloomy-ghost commented 6 years ago

actually, no.

if you look at http://cx-bsdiff.sourceforge.net/LICENSE.txt, it's BSD Protection License, and is only one way compatible with the official BSD licenses from UCB. I was going to package bsdiff4 for Debian but had to stop when I saw the upstream license.

IANAL, but the options seem to be either: a. convince cx-bsdiff to use a real BSD license. b. bsdiff4 needs to switch to the same license.

related debian-legal thread: https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/10/msg00344.html TL;DR it's dfsg non-free and can't be included in Debian main repository.