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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
