Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 23:52:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: GPL code in freebsd? Message-ID: <199506162152.XAA05538@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199506161904.FAA31772@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jun 17, 95 05:04:31 am
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[Note: I'm Cc'ing the offender, too.] As Bruce Evans wrote: > > [isdn] > >> > The FreeBSD-Current release at the moment contains what looks very much like > >> > GPL code and as such is subject to the GNU public license. > > >And we don't distribute that in binary form so we are not in violation > >of the GPL for that piece of code! > > We do distribute gcc in binary form and there is apparently no problem with > that. It wouldn't even a problem if we shipped a binary kernel version with the isdn driver, since we do also provide the source code. Problems will only arise for those who intend to distribute modified binaries without making the modified source available. Due to the currently very limited scope of the isdn driver (only german switch protocols, only a very limited range of hardware supported), this is unlikely to happen. (And then: it's the problem of those who're going to distribute those binary versions.) It's not our problem if the defenders of the GPL are unable to read their own license. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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