[openbeos] Re: Haiku distro guidelines [was: Haiku VmwareBuild Environment]

> 
> On 2008-04-16 at 04:52:29 [+0200], Jorge G. Mare <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 21:47 -0400, Karl vom Dorff wrote:
> > > Fair enough, though the disk images at Haiku-files.org don't have 
> > > a
> > > license attached with them. What about binutils, gdb included in 
> > > the
> > > operating system? Just like in my case, You can't call the whole 
> > > thing
> > > BSD/MIT. At best, mixed, with an explanation of the mixed 
> > > licenses...
> > 
> > I believe you are right in that we would need to include the 
> > license
> > text for each of them, something that apparently we have not been 
> > doing
> > so far. In all honesty, I don't know why.
> 
> Some packages have the license built-in. Since gdb was mentioned: on 
> startup it shows a short copyright notice and "show copying" will 
> give you 
> the complete GPL. Most command line tools (at least all GNU tools, I 
> think) 
> tell you how they are licensed when invoked with "--help" or "--
> version". 
> For the GNU tools the printed text includes a URL to the GPL. Not 
> sure if 
> it is legally still required to include the license text for them.
> 

Zeta had them (mostly at least) as files in /etc/licences/.

François.

Other related posts: