On Dec 2, 2007 5:42 PM, Marco S Hyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Miod Vallat writes: > > But some parts of OpenBSD's ksh are BSD-licensed files, which did not > > come from pdksh initially. > > That's not what /usr/src/bin/ksh/LEGAL states, but I didn't look > further. OK, looking I see that alloc.c and mknod.c have copyrights. > > > Relicensing these files under GPLv3 is only possible if their authors > > gave permission. > > Very true. Were they relicensed, or tossed and re-written from > scratch? > > // marc > >
As far as I can see, a COPYING file (containing the GPLv3) was placed along the others files of OpenBSD's ksh. The license of alloc.c, for example, has not been modified.