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List:       ntop-dev
Subject:    Re: [Ntop-dev] protocol.c licensing
From:       Luca Deri <deri () ntop ! org>
Date:       2013-02-18 16:39:27
Message-ID: 51D8D93F-6F05-4746-9C55-0B0D1E26837B () ntop ! org
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Ludovico,
I have removed the BSD clause. As far as I remember it's old stuff I have removed.

Regards Luca

On Feb 18, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Ludovico Cavedon <cavedon@debian.org> wrote:

> Hi again,
> 
> as it is right now, protocol.c cannot be redistibute, as it contains 2
> conflicting licenses:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Ludovico Cavedon <cavedon@debian.org> wrote:
>> another licensing issues has been reported [1] in the ntop source code.
>> 
>> The protocols.c contains both the GPL and the 4-clause BSD license.
>> However, the 4-clause BSD license is not compatible with the GPL
>> because of its "advertising clause" [2].
>> 
>> I tried to understand what part of the code is licensed under BSD, but
>> I could not find it. Can you give me some details on that?
>> 
>> That part can be replaced, or, if it comes from the BSD distribution,
>> it will benefit from this re-licensing [3].
> 
> I spent some time trying to find what code might be coming from BSD,
> however I could not find parts of the code in protocols.c anywhere
> else on it. It looks to me that everything in protocols.c is
> ntop-style code, which makes me think the BSD header in that file is
> some leftover and no longer applies.
> 
> However I need an official answer confirming or denying this, please.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludovico
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