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.) Chris -- Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ Computer Systems Manager, Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Mississippi 125B Lewis Hall - 662-915-5765
