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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, gdb@sourceware.org, mcepl@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Licensing: gdb/osf-share/ is GPL-incompatible
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:53:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100310105319.GN15364@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003101020.o2AAKQKm000277@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl>

> > This code is GPL-incompatible according to:
> > 	http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OriginalBSD
> 
> So whether the above is GPL incompatible is a whole different
> question.  I'd say it is perfectly compatible with at least the spirit
> of the GPL.  But since the lawayers got their paws on GPLv3, it turned
> into completely incomprehensible gibberish and it is hard to tell.

If we need confirmation, it's easy to contact the FSF lawyers and ask.
The last time I asked, they were actually glad that we're trying to
be careful about legal issues...

-- 
Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-10 10:53 UTC|newest]

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

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