2018-01-18 8:27 GMT+01:00 <cho...@jtan.com>:

> "Theo de Raadt" writes:
> > > Is there, by chance, such a breakdown available for these already?
> >
> > No.  We did our best.
>
> To be fair, these statements are potentially contradictory. If you
> (plural) only "did your best" (and what more could have been done?) then it
> is at least in *theory* possible that some mis-licensed piece of code
> slipped through.
>
> In fact I expect this didn't happen, but regardless ...
>

Well, it could still be a mix of MIT, BSD 2-clause, BSD 3-clause, public
domain and other very similar but not 100% identical licenses spread around
the non-GPL parts, and among those, a list of which parts are what might be
hard to find.

So for "commercial vs free" or "BSD-ish vs GPL" you might be safe to know
all except the gnu stuff has a very permissive license, comparable to
MIT/2-3 BSDL, you might still not be able to get a full list with tables and
checkboxes for each single file because making _that_ list takes time from
real work and may never be finished.

Now, something recent like importing llvm might have accidentally pulled in
a single small file with a wrong license in theory, so of course mistakes
can slip in, but barring that you can be certain that badly licensed code
will not have
deliberately entered the tree.

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