From kde-core-devel Thu Oct 14 22:14:33 2004 From: Ben Burton Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:14:33 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: License conflict for VM screensaver (kdeartwork) Message-Id: <20041014221433.GA11130 () eclipse ! debian ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=109779477208076 Hi, I was going through the licenses in kdeartwork as part of my debian packaging, and I came across what seems to be a license compatibility in the VM screensaver (kvm.kss) in kdeartwork/kscreensaver/kdesavers. kvm.kss is built from kvm.cpp, vm.c and vm_random.c. In vm.c we have: * Copyright (c) 2000 Artur Rataj * Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License And in vm_random.c we have: * Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California. * All rights reserved. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted * provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are * duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, * advertising materials, and other materials related to such * distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed * by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the * University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived * from this software without specific prior written permission. * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR * IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED * WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. AIUI, this contains an advertising clause (requiring documentation, advertising, etc to acknowledge UC Berkeley) which is incompatible with the GPL: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses In the meantime I have modified the debian packages to not build kvm.kss, but if this is a problem then it is clearly not specific to debian. If people could either suggest a fix (or explain to me why I'm mistaken) I would appreciate it. Thanks - Ben.