Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add tftp-hpa.

[Thomas Danckaert]

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Hi Leo and Gábor,

I just thought of this patch again today, but Leo beat me to it.

I've looked into the licensing a bit more.  The BSD advertising
issue seems to be a misunderstanding on the part of Debian, at least
as far as the author is concerned:
http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2003-January/001484.html

So, there's no clear license statement included in the package
source, but the author's intention is to distribute the code under a
permissive license, without advertising clause.  I think we can use
(license non-copyleft)?

Without the BSD advertising issues, linking with readline should not
be a problem either, so we can include readline as an input, and
remove statements about readline from the description (I think the
description comes from the Debian/Ubuntu package repositories?).  We
could reuse the description from
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/tftp/tftp-hpa.git/about,
something like:

     "tftp-hpa is a conglomerate of a number of versions of the BSD
     TFTP code, changed around to port to a whole collection of
     operating systems.  The goal is to work on any reasonably modern
     Unix with sockets."

WDYT?

Thomas