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Re: License Violation - ksh

by Andrés Delfino :: Rate this Message:

On Dec 2, 2007 5:42 PM, Marco S Hyman <marc@...> wrote:

> Miod Vallat writes:
> > But some parts of OpenBSD's ksh are BSD-licensed files, which did not
> > come from pdksh initially.
>
> That's not what /usr/src/bin/ksh/LEGAL states, but I didn't look
> further. OK, looking I see that alloc.c and mknod.c have copyrights.
>
> > Relicensing these files under GPLv3 is only possible if their authors
> > gave permission.
>
> Very true. Were they relicensed, or tossed and re-written from
> scratch?
>
> // marc
>
>

As far as I can see, a COPYING file (containing the GPLv3) was placed
along the others files of OpenBSD's ksh. The license of alloc.c, for
example, has not been modified.

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