> > > > just because you have a GPL application, does not force openBeos to be GPL. > > It just means that that particular application (eg KHTML) will remain under > > GPL, while other parts of openBeos would be BSD, or Be sample software > > licence, etc > >If we import gpl'ed code into the OBOS apps dir, and someone copies >a rutine from one of the GPL apps into OBOS, we f*cked. Therefore >we shouldn't use anything remotely GPL'ed. However I'm all for creating >binaries, and add them to a beunited distribution... >

>/Brian Matzon

its hard for me to imagine that developers nowadays are so irresponsible as to ignore the respective licences. Dunno, I might be alone.

if someone does copy GPL code by mistake, then all they should do is remove the offending code. Its not like a blood stain.