Dear Maintainer,

on packaging a different, new package that uses excerpts from udunits,
I noticed that the copyright information in debian/copyright does not
agree with that in (upstream) COPYRIGHT.
This seems to go back to upstream commit

https://github.com/Unidata/UDUNITS-2/commit/b362869285b629fa52b3fc464c58d74b9d6e362b

The new license is very close to a 3-clause bsd license, but adds a
fourth clause; therefore discussion on debian-legal might be indicated.

Regards,
 Klaus Zimmermann

Hi,


As indicated below, the license on a package I maintain has changed,
adding a new clause to the 3-clause BSD license.

Can debian-legal please review and comment on the clause:

   4) This license shall terminate automatically and you may no longer exercise
      any of the rights granted to you by this license as of the date you
      commence an action, including a cross-claim or counterclaim, against
      the copyright holder or any contributor alleging that this software
      infringes a patent. This termination provision shall not apply for an
      action alleging patent infringement by combinations of this software with
      other software or hardware.

Thanks
Alastair McKinstry

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Subject: 	Bug#837666: udunits: license change
Resent-Date: 	Tue, 13 Sep 2016 11:57:02 +0000
Resent-From: 	Klaus Zimmermann <klaus_zimmermann@gmx.de>
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Date: 	Tue, 13 Sep 2016 13:54:47 +0200
From: 	Klaus Zimmermann <klaus_zimmermann@gmx.de>
Reply-To: 	Klaus Zimmermann <klaus_zimmermann@gmx.de>,
837666@bugs.debian.org
To: 	Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>



Source: udunits
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

on packaging a different, new package that uses excerpts from udunits,
I noticed that the copyright information in debian/copyright does not
agree with that in (upstream) COPYRIGHT.
This seems to go back to upstream commit

https://github.com/Unidata/UDUNITS-2/commit/b362869285b629fa52b3fc464c58d74b9d6e362b

The new license is very close to a 3-clause bsd license, but adds a
fourth clause; therefore discussion on debian-legal might be indicated.

Regards,
 Klaus Zimmermann

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
udunits, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 837666@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org> (supplier of updated udunits package)

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believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 08:55:24 +0100
Source: udunits
Architecture: source
Version: 2.2.28-8
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org>
Closes: 837666 1013822 1013858 1049582
Changes:
 udunits (2.2.28-8) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Set Debian Science Maint. as maintainer
   * Fix broken vcs url
   * Standards-Version: 4.7.2; no changes required
   * Update d/watch file
   * Add shlibs:Depends, misc:Depends to udunits-bin for debhelper
   * Move recommends: pkgs-config -> pkgconf
   * Re-create html files to allow multiple builds. Closes: #1049582
   * Close old bugs: Closes: #1013822, #1013858
   * Mark linudunits-0 as Multi-Arch: same
   * Update d/copyright. Closes: #837666
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