From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Apr 17 2:58:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8C8337B759 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 02:58:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA10972 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:58:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id LAA00595 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:58:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1048737B81D for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 17:39:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustident!@homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA17345; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 18:39:02 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <38FA5D6E.AE039BE9@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 18:40:14 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Licensing (no longer Re: Shells) References: <31345.955883432@zippy.cdrom.com> <38F9A104.3F54BC7E@elischer.org> <38FA06E0.43004E28@softweyr.com> <38FA0A1A.63DECDAD@elischer.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message