Comment 2 for bug 244925

The BSD licence is compatible with the GPL by any serious interpretation that I've ever heard (including the FSF's), provided that the advertising clause is not present. Most modern BSD code does not include the advertising clause and can legitimately be linked with GPL code.

If you know of instances where we are distributing GPL code linked with other code under an incompatible licence, please tell us. I don't believe that we are any less strict about this than Debian, and it would be rather foolish for us to be so since we're a bigger target for lawsuits.