From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 2 19:27:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from amonduul.ecn.ou.edu (amonduul.ecn.ou.edu [129.15.119.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F0EE37BF54 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 19:27:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from servalan!rmtodd@amonduul.ecn.ou.edu) Received: from servalan (2368 bytes) by amonduul.ecn.ou.edu via rmail with P:uucp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for freebsd.org!freebsd-current; Tue, 2 May 2000 21:26:18 -0500 (CDT) (Smail-3.2.0.111 2000-Feb-17 #1 built 2000-Apr-4) Received: from localhost (1818 bytes) by servalan.servalan.com via sendmail with P:stdio/R:smart_host/T:uux (sender: ) (ident using unix) id for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 20:46:24 -0500 (CDT) (Smail-3.2.0.106 1999-Mar-31 #1 built 1999-Aug-10) Message-Id: Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 20:46:24 -0500 (CDT) From: rmtodd@servalan.servalan.com (Richard Todd) To: blk@skynet.be, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: db 1.85 --> 2.x or 3.x? Newsgroups: servalan.mailinglist.fbsd-current References: X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.3 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In servalan.mailinglist.fbsd-current Brad Knowles writes: > Besides, don't we use gcc as the system-standard compiler, and >doesn't this likewise infect everything compiled on FreeBSD with the >GPL? No, because none of the gcc code appears in the resulting binary. The binary does include the "libgcc" code, but that code is specifically exempted from the GPL. Programs that link against the Berkeley DB 2.x library, however, will end up including the DB code, and thus end up including code covered by the 2.x licence. [Note: of course, if you link against a shared library, the actual code from the library doesn't appear in your binary. It seems to be the general consensus opinion that the courts would treat this the same as the static linking case, i.e. your binary would be covered under the licence "as if" you had statically linked against the relevant library, but I don't know if this has ever been tested in court anywhere. If you're in a situation where the legalities really matter, you should probably ask a real lawyer instead of relying on the semi-informed opinion of people posting to mailing lists.] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message