bash completion script licensing
Hi, While working on packaging zfs-fuse, I thought about adding a bash completion script for the zfs and zpool commands. Anyways, such a script already exists[1], but its license is CDDL, which is not GPL compatible. Most files in /etc/bash_completion.d on my system don't have a license boilerplate header, but the few that do are under the GPL, and bash itself is GPL. As the GPL and CDDL are incompatible, as GPL code has some strange interactions with other code (library linkage, etc.), and as I'm not sure how sourced bash scripts are supposed to be considered in this context, I wonder if having such a CDDL bash script would be problematic license-wise. Mike 1. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/scripts/sunScripts/zfs_completion.bash.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: bash completion script licensing
On Fri Jan 02 19:50, Mike Hommey wrote: > As the GPL and CDDL are incompatible, as GPL code has some strange > interactions with other code (library linkage, etc.), and as I'm not > sure how sourced bash scripts are supposed to be considered in this > context, I wonder if having such a CDDL bash script would be > problematic license-wise. There would be no problem with a CDDL bash script per-se, any more than there would be with a CDDL jpeg or a GPL word document. I suppose you could argue that since it is modifying the behaviour of one of bash's built-in functions it counts under the (already dubious) GPL linkage clause, but I think it would be a stretch. Matt -- Matthew Johnson signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: GPL photographies, eg for backround
Le mercredi 31 décembre 2008 à 09:15 -0800, Ken Arromdee a écrit : > > Indeed, but we are not talking of a program but of pictures here. > > The same applies if you don't provide the source code for the picture. No. If you’re the copyright owner, you get to decide what is the preferred form of modification. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `-our own. Resistance is futile. signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée
