On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 06:14:09PM -0300, Andr?s wrote:
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> On Dec 2, 2007 5:42 PM, Marco S Hyman <marc@snafu.org> wrote:
> > Miod Vallat writes:
> >  > But some parts of OpenBSD's ksh are BSD-licensed files, which did not
> >  > come from pdksh initially.
> >
> > That's not what /usr/src/bin/ksh/LEGAL states, but I didn't look
> > further.  OK, looking I see that alloc.c and mknod.c have copyrights.
> >
> >  > Relicensing these files under GPLv3 is only possible if their authors
> >  > gave permission.
> >
> > Very true.   Were they relicensed, or tossed and re-written from
> > scratch?
> >
> > // marc
> >
> >
> 
> As far as I can see, a COPYING file (containing the GPLv3) was placed
> along the others files of OpenBSD's ksh. The license of alloc.c, for
> example, has not been modified.

None of the licenses have actually been modified. The fact that there is a
COPYING file added which contains a copy of the GPLv3 seems harmless, but is
confusing.

Ivo