Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 18:40:14 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Licensing (no longer Re: Shells) Message-ID: <38FA5D6E.AE039BE9@softweyr.com> References: <31345.955883432@zippy.cdrom.com> <38F9A104.3F54BC7E@elischer.org> <38FA06E0.43004E28@softweyr.com> <38FA0A1A.63DECDAD@elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> Wes Peters wrote:
> >
> > I have been a bash user for many years, but would not want to put bash
> > in an embedded system for fear of contaminating the code base; Julian's
> > point is well founded.
> >
>
> consider a 'crunched' binary including bash and a proprietary
> program. Instant GPL pollution of proprietary program.
Depending on the court's interpretation of "derived work" you might not
even have to do that. I have been given an opinion by members of the
legal staff of a large US-based semiconductor manufacturer that making
any single-purpose box that requires GPL code to function means the
entire product is a work derived from the GPL code. Instant pollution
of everything in the box. This is what Terry Lambert refers to as the
viral nature of the GPL.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
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