Bug#883731: audacious: Debian packaging has incorrect license

Nicholas D Steeves nsteeves at gmail.com
Sun Dec 10 23:28:05 UTC 2017


On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 12:23:47AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 18:12:39 -0500 Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > GPL-incompatible 2-clause BSD
> [...]
> 
> A nitpick: the 2-clause BSD license is not GPL-incompatible (it's
> indeed compatible with the GNU GPL).
> It's just a distinct license with different (and much simpler)
> wording...

Good point.  I ought to have phrased that differently ;-) What I mean
is that a GPL piece cannot become a BSD piece without explicit
relicensing by all copyright holders.
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