[openbeos] Re: 4-clause BSD license
- From: "Jonas Buckner" <MouriceNo1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Haiku Mailing List" <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:17:17 -0400
If the GPL did that, it would conflict with parts 1 and 9 of the open
source definition, with which it complies.
Part 2b only applies to the portion of the code that was originally
released under the GPL.
All that having GPLed code in our tree should is prevent redistributors
from closing the source to those portions of Haiku.
While this may not be the most desirable situation (since a few of us
are MIT/BSD purists :), it certainly won't require a GPLed distribution
of Haiku.
That's been my understanding of it, anyway. Feel free to make fun of me
if I'm wrong.
-- Jonas B.
On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:32:47 +0000, Ar18@xxxxxxxxxxx said:
> I hope it wouldn't be rude to follow up on this. This issue can easily
> get out of hand, as you know. :)
> Anyways, when you mentioned GPL code, was it stuff that was just on the
> site for other purposes or code intended to be part of the Haiku
> distribution (like for a CD)?
>
> I realize that GPL code on a site along with non GPL code could be ok....
> However, if the code is gonna be included with a Haiku distribution (aka
> on a CD), it will force the entire distribution into the GPL -- not the
> code on the site, but the CD you are distributing... (which is rather
> unsettling to me as I was expecting a non-GPLed distribution of Haiku to
> be available).
>
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