Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 03:25:00 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu, Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite Message-ID: <199908121025.DAA06011@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On 12 Aug 1999 11:01:06 +0200
Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> wrote:
> This prevents you from relicensing BSD software under the GPL. It does
> not prevent you from selling an OS that has both BSD and GPL bits, as
> long as the GPL bits come with full source.
If you have an executable object which includes GPL'd code, you must
supply FULL SOURCE for the *entire* object, not just the GPL'd bits.
This is the real crux of the problem; the GPL has a virus-like nature.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
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