Here's the full text of what Chuck sent me. Maybe it'll help: "Bad news. The stuff you took from OpenBSD is licensed under the BSD w/advertising clause. And, since it is owned by Klaus Klein and/or "The NetBSD Foundation" it does NOT fall under the blanket changeover (from w/advert clause to NO advert clause) issued by the UCalBerkeley folks.
Since the BSD+advert license is incompatible with the GPL, you CANNOT legally mix the two -- you can't even link a BSD+advert library with a GPL executable. You can't link a BSD+advert .o with a GPL .o. And you *definitely* can't mix BSD+advert code with GPL code in the same .c file." > -----Original Message----- > From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:49 AM > To: 'Corinna Vinschen' > Subject: Re: FW: fnmatch > > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:16:02AM -0500, Mark Bradshaw wrote: > > Oops. Chuck caught a licensing problem with the openbsd version of > > strptime... > > > > Bad news. The stuff you took from OpenBSD is licensed > under the BSD > > w/advertising clause. And, since it is owned by Klaus > Klein and/or "The > > NetBSD Foundation" it does NOT fall under the blanket > changeover (from > > w/advert clause to NO advert clause) issued by the > UCalBerkeley folks. > > I (still) don't exactly understand the implications of that clause. > And the fnmatch.c code is copyrighted by UCB... > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails > regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Developer > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Red Hat, Inc. >