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


From: Julius Davies
Subject: Re: GPL incompatibility? examples/loadables/getconf.c
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:21:55 -0800

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
>                 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
> Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
>



-- 
yours,

Julius Davies
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