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From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Cc: Matej Cepl <mcepl@redhat.com>
Subject: Licensing: gdb/osf-share/ is GPL-incompatible
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:24:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100310092425.GA3257@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> (raw)

Hi,

Matej Cepl has found gdb/osf-share/ contains "BSD with advertising" license:

/*
 * (c) Copyright 1990-1996 OPEN SOFTWARE FOUNDATION, INC.
 * (c) Copyright 1990-1996 HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY
 * (c) Copyright 1990-1996 DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
 * (c) Copyright 1991, 1992 Siemens-Nixdorf Information Systems
 * To anyone who acknowledges that this file is provided "AS IS" without
 * any express or implied warranty: permission to use, copy, modify, and
 * distribute this file for any purpose is hereby granted without fee,
 * provided that the above copyright notices and this notice appears in
 * all source code copies, and that none of the names listed above be used
 * in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software
 * without specific, written prior permission.  None of these organizations
 * makes any representations about the suitability of this software for
 * any purpose.
 */

This code is GPL-incompatible according to:
	http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OriginalBSD

Therefore gdb/+bfd/ etc. should contain an exception for its GPLv3+:
	http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs

Found this gdb/osf-share code is referenced only by:
gdb/Makefile.in:
hpux-thread.o: $(srcdir)/hpux-thread.c
	$(COMPILE) -I$(srcdir)/osf-share -I$(srcdir)/osf-share/HP800 \
		-I/usr/include/dce $(srcdir)/hpux-thread.c
	$(POSTCOMPILE)

Or do I miss something obvious?  IANAL (Matej Cepl is).


Thanks,
Jan


             reply	other threads:[~2010-03-10  9:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-10  9:24 Jan Kratochvil [this message]
2010-03-10 10:20 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-03-10 10:53   ` Joel Brobecker
2010-03-10 14:24     ` Jan Kratochvil

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