On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:20:06AM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Oct 15, matthew green wrote: > > NetBSD. Licensing. > > > > Appears to be old (non-revised) BSD license... certainly the INSTALL.txt > > file for 1.6 has lines at the beginning of the ungodly long section for > > the NetBSD project (in two forms, no less!) > > > > Pardon me while I sink into despair of ever untangling the mess, even if > > we can use it (is the old BSD license DFSG-non-free?) > > > > > > the biggest problem isn't that TNF has a "clause 3" but that N > > contributers also do. however, that list is maintained in > > distrib/notes/legal i think so you can easily get a list of > > "clause 3"'s in the netbsd source tree. unfortunately, these > > aren't linked to the sources they refer to cuz in some cases > > this list is 100's of files across the whole tree. > > > > > > it was my understanding the old 4 clause UCB license was DFSG > > happy, anyway. > > The four-clause license is DFSG-free; however, it is > GPL-incompatible. This shouldn't be a problem with the NetBSD kernel, > but it might be a problem if you need to link some NetBSD code to > GPLed code in userland. (For example, if you need to link some > 4-clause library to gcc.) Er. Given that 'libc' is under the 4-clause license, if this is true... or does that not apply to 'system' libraries? NetBSD certainly has a fair bit of GPLed code, including dist/gnu in the source tree. Still, as long as it's DFSG-free... what are the practical implications of using it as a core? Do we have to provide an advertising clause in our releases, et al, as NetBSD appears to? I can work on trying to untangle the strands of which license applies to what part of the NetBSD source tree, but I need to know what I should do about the copyright file and whether anyone else needs to be aware... -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com lucifer@lightbearer.com http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/
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