No harm done just stupidity perpetuated. Kind of like fox news.
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 12:32:56AM -0500, David H. Lynch Jr. wrote:
> 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?
> >>>
> >
> >
>
>
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