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Re: License Violation - ksh

by Miod Vallat (on the road) :: Rate this Message:

> > Hello,
> > Someone on IRC just posted this link http://www.delilinux.de/oksh/ , seems
> > like someone ported OpenBSD ksh to Linux and licensed it under GPLv3. Isn't
> > this a license violation?
>
> See /usr/src/bin/ksh/LEGAL.
>
> People can do just about whatever they want with public domain code,
> including slapping a license on it. Anyone foolish (or lazy) enough
> to derive code from the licenses derivative deserves the license they
> get.

But some parts of OpenBSD's ksh are BSD-licensed files, which did not
come from pdksh initially.

Relicensing these files under GPLv3 is only possible if their authors
gave permission.

Miod

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