Re: I've got a bad feeling about this...

2002-10-15 Thread Nathan Hawkins
Matthew Garrett wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 03:47:01PM +1000, matthew green wrote: as far as i'm aware, there are very conflicting views on mixing GPL & 4-clause software. to me, calling them "incompatible" such that you refuse to link apps & libraries because of it is way over stepping the mar

Re: I've got a bad feeling about this...

2002-10-15 Thread Nathan Hawkins
Joel Baker wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:45:56AM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: On Oct 14, Joel Baker wrote: Er. Given that 'libc' is under the 4-clause license, if this is true... or does that not apply to 'system' libraries? NetBSD certainly has a fair bit of GPLed code, including dist/gnu in t

re: I've got a bad feeling about this...

2002-10-15 Thread matthew green
> the only problem with the Big List file is that i'd expect a lot of it > not to apply to debian/netbsd. only those parts in sys/, lib/libc/ and > sundry programs ... which is probably 90% of the list anyway. A quick grep of libc reveals that it's mostly either The NetBSD foun

Re: I've got a bad feeling about this...

2002-10-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 03:47:01PM +1000, matthew green wrote: > as far as i'm aware, there are very conflicting views on mixing > GPL & 4-clause software. to me, calling them "incompatible" such > that you refuse to link apps & libraries because of it is way over > stepping the mark, espcially i

Re: I've got a bad feeling about this...

2002-10-15 Thread Joel Baker
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 04:00:22PM +1000, matthew green wrote: > >It's the INSTALL.txt file, not a copyright file. I have not (yet) been able >to find a copyright or license file that directly applies to the sources >in CVS, either on the website or in CVS itself. Anyone who knows w

re: I've got a bad feeling about this...

2002-10-15 Thread matthew green
It's the INSTALL.txt file, not a copyright file. I have not (yet) been able to find a copyright or license file that directly applies to the sources in CVS, either on the website or in CVS itself. Anyone who knows where the heck the thing is hiding, do tell. :) look in src/distrib/

Re: I've got a bad feeling about this...

2002-10-15 Thread Joel Baker
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:45:56AM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Oct 14, Joel Baker wrote: > > Er. Given that 'libc' is under the 4-clause license, if this is true... or > > does that not apply to 'system' libraries? NetBSD certainly has a fair bit > > of GPLed code, including dist/gnu in the s

re: I've got a bad feeling about this...

2002-10-15 Thread matthew green
as far as i'm aware, there are very conflicting views on mixing GPL & 4-clause software. to me, calling them "incompatible" such that you refuse to link apps & libraries because of it is way over stepping the mark, espcially if you are linking GPL apps against a BSD system -- are you going to

Re: I've got a bad feeling about this...

2002-10-15 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Oct 14, Joel Baker wrote: > Er. Given that 'libc' is under the 4-clause license, if this is true... or > does that not apply to 'system' libraries? NetBSD certainly has a fair bit > of GPLed code, including dist/gnu in the source tree. Hmm. This could get ugly quickly; my gut feeling is that s

Re: I've got a bad feeling about this...

2002-10-15 Thread Joel Baker
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:20:06AM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Oct 15, matthew green wrote: > >NetBSD. Licensing. > > > >Appears to be old (non-revised) BSD license... certainly the INSTALL.txt > >file for 1.6 has lines at the beginning of the ungodly long section for > >t

Re: I've got a bad feeling about this...

2002-10-15 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Oct 15, matthew green wrote: >NetBSD. Licensing. > >Appears to be old (non-revised) BSD license... certainly the INSTALL.txt >file for 1.6 has lines at the beginning of the ungodly long section for >the NetBSD project (in two forms, no less!) > >Pardon me while I sink

re: I've got a bad feeling about this...

2002-10-15 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
> it was my understanding the old 4 clause UCB license was DFSG > happy, anyway. Looks like it: http://www.debian.org/social_contract Also, that old BSD advertising acknowledgement is very similar to Apache's current license. Jeremy C. Reed ...

re: I've got a bad feeling about this...

2002-10-14 Thread matthew green
NetBSD. Licensing. Appears to be old (non-revised) BSD license... certainly the INSTALL.txt file for 1.6 has lines at the beginning of the ungodly long section for the NetBSD project (in two forms, no less!) Pardon me while I sink into despair of ever untangling the mess,

I've got a bad feeling about this...

2002-10-14 Thread Joel Baker
NetBSD. Licensing. Appears to be old (non-revised) BSD license... certainly the INSTALL.txt file for 1.6 has lines at the beginning of the ungodly long section for the NetBSD project (in two forms, no less!) Pardon me while I sink into despair of ever untangling the mess, even if we can use it (i