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RE: FW: fnmatch


Here's the full text of what Chuck sent me.  Maybe it'll help:

"Bad news.  The stuff you took from OpenBSD is licensed under the BSD 
w/advertising clause.  And, since it is owned by Klaus Klein and/or "The 
NetBSD Foundation" it does NOT fall under the blanket changeover (from 
w/advert clause to NO advert clause) issued by the UCalBerkeley folks.

Since the BSD+advert license is incompatible with the GPL, you CANNOT 
legally mix the two -- you can't even link a BSD+advert library with a 
GPL executable.  You can't link a BSD+advert .o with a GPL .o.  And you 
*definitely* can't mix BSD+advert code with GPL code in the same .c file."

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:cygwin-patches@cygwin.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:49 AM
> To: 'Corinna Vinschen'
> Subject: Re: FW: fnmatch
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:16:02AM -0500, Mark Bradshaw wrote:
> > Oops.  Chuck caught a licensing problem with the openbsd version of
> > strptime...
> > 
> > Bad news.  The stuff you took from OpenBSD is licensed 
> under the BSD 
> > w/advertising clause.  And, since it is owned by Klaus 
> Klein and/or "The 
> > NetBSD Foundation" it does NOT fall under the blanket 
> changeover (from 
> > w/advert clause to NO advert clause) issued by the 
> UCalBerkeley folks.
> 
> I (still) don't exactly understand the implications of that clause.
> And the fnmatch.c code is copyrighted by UCB...
> 
> Corinna
> 
> -- 
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