[quake3] Legal stuff

Bruno Kleinert fuddl at gmx.de
Wed Jan 18 02:17:23 EST 2006


On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:25:40 +0000
Tim Angus <tim at ngus.net> wrote:

> I just checked in a GPL MD4 implementation derived from the Linux
> kernel. I'm not 100% sure it's 64bit and big-endian safe, so some
> testing on x86_64 and ppc would be good.
> 
> The advertising clause in the Berkeley license is not GPL compatible.
> Fortunately there is a precedent for simple removing it:
> 
> ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
> 
> So I suggest we do just that.. unless anybody disagrees?
> 

I would appreciate it very much if one would take time to clean up the
license issues. ATM that's the only reason why I couldn't get Ubuntu
dapper packages through the Ubuntu reviewing process.




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