Re: GPL incompatibility? examples/loadables/getconf.c

[Julius Davies]

Thanks, everyone, for the responses!  Very useful.  I'm studying open
source licensing at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada, and these
responses were great.

yours,

Julius


On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> On 12/25/09 8:28 PM, Julius Davies wrote:
>> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
>> Machine: x86_64
>> OS: linux-gnu
>> Compiler: gcc
>> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64'
>> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu'
>> -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDI$
>> uname output: Linux flower 2.6.31-1-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Nov 16 04:44:38
>> UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> Machine Type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>>
>> Bash Version: 4.0
>> Patch Level: 33
>> Release Status: release
>>
>> Description:
>>
>> This file in the source contains a BSD license with an advertising clause:
>>
>> bash-4.0/examples/loadables/getconf.c
>>
>>
>> I'm curious if this is a problem, since Bash is mostly GPL version 3 (or 
>> later).
>
> It's a loadable builtin.  It has to be built separately and loaded with
> enable -f.  And it's an example, for pete's sake.
>
> --
> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
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> Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
>



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