Pedro de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > Someone on IRC just posted this link http://www.delilinux.de/oksh/ , > > seems > > > like someone ported OpenBSD ksh to Linux and licensed it under GPLv3. > > > Isn't this a license violation?
Marco S Hyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > See /usr/src/bin/ksh/LEGAL. > > > > People can do just about whatever they want with public domain code, > > including slapping a license on it. Anyone foolish (or lazy) enough > > to derive code from the licenses derivative deserves the license they > > get. On 02/12/2007, Miod Vallat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But some parts of OpenBSD's ksh are BSD-licensed files, which did not > come from pdksh initially. > > Relicensing these files under GPLv3 is only possible if their authors > gave permission. Okay, so in case that is true, my question to Pedro is: Have you contacted the publisher of http://www.delilinux.de/oksh/ privately before going public on a widely read mailing list? It would seem the poluite thing to do, no? Maybe the guy (or gal)'s not very well informed and made an honest mistake. --ropers
