as far as i'm aware, there are very conflicting views on mixing GPL & 4-clause software. to me, calling them "incompatible" such that you refuse to link apps & libraries because of it is way over stepping the mark, espcially if you are linking GPL apps against a BSD system -- are you going to claim that all non-GPL systems that include GPL programs should have all their libraries licensed under the GPL? is "sunfreeware.com" illegal? SGI's "fw" ?
Still, as long as it's DFSG-free... what are the practical implications of using it as a core? Do we have to provide an advertising clause in our releases, et al, as NetBSD appears to? you need to provide that Big List somewhere. a file called LEGAL would be nice. it doesn't need to be advertised espcially well but a one-line notice in the release notes would probably be nice. it's not the where or how, just the fact that it's somewhere. I can work on trying to untangle the strands of which license applies to what part of the NetBSD source tree, but I need to know what I should do about the copyright file and whether anyone else needs to be aware... the only problem with the Big List file is that i'd expect a lot of it not to apply to debian/netbsd. only those parts in sys/, lib/libc/ and sundry programs ... which is probably 90% of the list anyway. .mrg.
