Pedro de Oliveira <
falso@...> wrote:
> > > 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?
Marco S Hyman <
marc@...> wrote:
> > 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.
On 02/12/2007, Miod Vallat <
miod@...> wrote:
> 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.
Okay, so in case that is true, my question to Pedro is: Have you
contacted the publisher of
http://www.delilinux.de/oksh/ privately
before going public on a widely read mailing list? It would seem the
poluite thing to do, no? Maybe the guy (or gal)'s not very well
informed and made an honest mistake.
--ropers
