Re: bash completion script licensing
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 09:53:06PM +0000, Matthew Johnson wrote:
> 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.
I'd add that "require" or "import" in perl, python, ruby, etc. fall
under the GPL linkage clause. Why would bash's "source" not ?
Mike
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