From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 1 20: 3:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A38B37B401 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 20:03:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AC3143E9C for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 20:03:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmp@pantherdragon.org) Received: from sparx.techno.pagans (12-224-208-117.client.attbi.com [12.224.208.117]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 014BB1005F; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 20:03:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by sparx.techno.pagans (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D706AA98; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 20:03:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3DEADB90.3020206@pantherdragon.org> Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 20:03:28 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kyle Martin Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is a port skeleton considered a derivative work under the GPL? References: <3DE9A680.4000702@pantherdragon.org> <20021201004323.GD811@marvin.bsdng.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kyle Martin wrote: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 10:04:48PM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote: >>skeleton is just the basic wrapper Makefile and uses the entire contents >>of the original tarball verbatim, the skeleton is the equivalent of an >>external start-up script and thus outside the scope of the original >>license, right? What if I need to include patches or replace the >>original Makefiles to get a clean build and install? Do those patches >>and replacements have to be GPL'd? I've read the GPL, and all I gained > > we do it all the time, look at any of the thousands of ported GPL applications That's lemming logic, though. I'd rather check first. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message