On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM Matthew Woehlke via legal
<legal@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> Portions of GCC are distributed under the following license:
>
>   ====================================================
>   Copyright (C) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
>
>   Developed at SunPro, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. business.
>   Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
>   software is freely granted, provided that this notice
>   is preserved.
>   ====================================================
>
> However, this notice does not seem to exist anywhere in binary distributions. 
> I suspect the *intent* was similar to a BSD-style license, and my impression 
> is that corporate lawyers tend to argue for that interpretation; i.e. 
> "preserved" means that the notice is present somewhere in derivative works. 
> Upstream, however, seems to feel that the notice is "preserved" because it 
> hasn't been removed from the source file, i.e. it is *not* necessary to 
> include the notice in binary distributions or other derived works.
>
> If I ship compiled code which includes code under the above license, what are 
> my obligations? Do I need to include the above notice? Can I omit it 
> entirely? Something else?
>
> (See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2353932.)

I can't give you legal advice but: (1) I think "preserved" ought to be
read as meaning "it has to be included even if you distribute a
binary" and (2) if you simultaneously make source code available in
the same manner as your binary distribution, that requirement to
"preserve" is satisfied.

Richard

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