Harald van Dijk <har...@gigawatt.nl> wrote: > > To be honest, I'm getting confused now. > > I knew that the output of GPL programs is not generally covered by the > GPL itself. And that's all that COPYING says: > > "mksignames.c: > > This file is not directly linked with dash. However, its output is." > > But about the not "generally" covered: as mentioned on > <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.en.html#WhatCaseIsOutputGPL>, > > if the output includes part of the GPL-licensed code, then the output is > GPL-licensed as well. And admittedly, signames.c does contain part of > mksignames.c. > > It seems unclear to packagers, at any rate: > > Fedora and Gentoo say dash is BSD-licensed. MacPorts lists it as GPL-2+.
Yes there is this as well as part of src/bltin/test.c that contains GPL code. However, they're small and easy to remove/rewrite. So I'd prefer not to add any more GPL code if possible. Thanks, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
