[openbeos-build-team] Re: Including GPL/other License Code

  • From: "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos-build-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 18:13:40 -0400

>
>Hi,
>
>I wonder what the policy for including code in the tree that is under 
>the GPL or other licenses. We have `src/apps/bin/gnu' or `src/tools/
>stubgen' which are GPLed (both don't build, BTW). Michael Pfeiffer's 
>request regarding PDFLib, which is commercial but for free software 
>available under the Aladdin Free Public License, is still unanswered. 
>Include source code, library only or nothing at all? And in the library 
>case, where?

I really want to do this on a case by case. Since we aren't necessarily in a 
place to
have to make a distro, this should be far less of an issue. If "ls" or 
something will run without 
code changes, we don't have to do anything with it. Also, there is geek gadgets 
doing some of
this stuff.


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