Thanks, everyone, for the responses! Very useful. I'm studying open source licensing at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada, and these responses were great.
yours, Julius On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > On 12/25/09 8:28 PM, Julius Davies wrote: >> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: >> Machine: x86_64 >> OS: linux-gnu >> Compiler: gcc >> Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' >> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' >> -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDI$ >> uname output: Linux flower 2.6.31-1-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Nov 16 04:44:38 >> UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux >> Machine Type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu >> >> Bash Version: 4.0 >> Patch Level: 33 >> Release Status: release >> >> Description: >> >> This file in the source contains a BSD license with an advertising clause: >> >> bash-4.0/examples/loadables/getconf.c >> >> >> I'm curious if this is a problem, since Bash is mostly GPL version 3 (or >> later). > > It's a loadable builtin. It has to be built separately and loaded with > enable -f. And it's an example, for pete's sake. > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ > -- yours, Julius Davies 250-592-2284 (Home) 250-893-4579 (Mobile) http://juliusdavies.ca/logging.html
