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Re: bash completion script licensing



On Fri Jan 02 19:50, Mike Hommey wrote:
> As the GPL and CDDL are incompatible, as GPL code has some strange
> interactions with other code (library linkage, etc.), and as I'm not
> sure how sourced bash scripts are supposed to be considered in this
> context, I wonder if having such a CDDL bash script would be
> problematic license-wise.

There would be no problem with a CDDL bash script per-se, any more than
there would be with a CDDL jpeg or a GPL word document. I suppose you
could argue that since it is modifying the behaviour of one of bash's
built-in functions it counts under the (already dubious) GPL linkage
clause, but I think it would be a stretch. 

Matt

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Matthew Johnson

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