Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 04:05:10PM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: > >> There are other sources as well: >> http://www.peereboom.us/ksh_linux.html >> http://www.wormhole.hu/~ice/ksh/ >> >> Don't know why that dude went through the trouble of putting gplv3 shit >> on it. >> > > fear, misunderstanding, and confusion caused by the rantings of RMS? > Why would anyone bother putting a BSD license on something that started as PD ?
The authors of PD KSH are perfectly free to choose to put it into the public domain. At that point while you could republish the whole mess under most any license you please you could not prevent the removal of any license you added on any of the original code. The developers of the OpenBSD variant chose a BSD license for the code they added. It appears the developer of the GPL variant respected that and chose GPLv3 for his contributions. No fouls were commited, and the only unhappiness is among zealots - regardless of their persuasion, who beleive their way is the one true and only way. > >> On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 07:30:02PM -0000, Pedro de Oliveira 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? >>> > > -- Dave Lynch DLA Systems Software Development: Embedded Linux 717.627.3770 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dlasys.net fax: 1.253.369.9244 Cell: 1.717.587.7774 Over 25 years' experience in platforms, languages, and technologies too numerous to list. "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." Albert Einstein
