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Re: [News] BSD's Could Be in Violation of the GPL

  • Subject: Re: [News] BSD's Could Be in Violation of the GPL
  • From: spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:23:15 GMT
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service
  • References: <2368577.RPcu1tqXOi@schestowitz.com> <iema74-ahl.ln1@ridcully.ntlworld.com> <slrneq5c9b.7qt.BobT@linus.cs.queensu.ca>
  • Sender: Andrew Halliwell <spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Bob Tennent <BobT@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
> On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:54:57 GMT, spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
> >> A shadow lies upon all BSD distributions
> >
> > Um... BSD doesn't use the GPL. And any GPL code they do use they honour.

> http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/07/01/08/1219254.shtml

> The problem is that the advertising clause in the BSD licence
> used for libkvm is incompatible with the GPL license used for the
> start-stop-daemon to which it is linked. All the authors of libkvm will
> have to agree to drop the advertising clause.

Or they could change daemon. Can't be that hard to cobble together a bsd
start-stop daemon, can it?
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