Nathan Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is anyone seriously concerned that Sun or the FSF might sue over linking
> a GPL program against a CDDL library? Have they sued over the inclusion
> of gcc with Solaris yet? Have they sued FreeBSD or NetBSD yet? They both
> ship gcc in their base systems, linked against a libc which still has
> 4-clause BSD licenses in it. According to Debian and FSF folks, that
> conflicts with the GPL. The argument is that the GPL's exception for
> linking against system libraries (i.e. libc) doesn't apply when you
> bundle them together with the program. Ick.
While I agree that the amateur lawyers are the only people that get
visibility on mailing such lists, you seem to miss the legal background
for BSD sources:
Around 1999, the Regents of UCB did give the permission to convert
all BSD based sources to the BSD-2 license. Unless the NetBSD libc contains
source files that have no UCB origin but contain the old BSD license clause,
you may convert the headers yourself.
Jörg
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