Hi Nick,
Nick Holland wrote on Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 09:44:41PM -0500:
> Things that aren't BSD-ish license are in /usr/src/gnu.
Still true, but...
> If that's where your problem is, that's what you want to leave out.
... that part is mildly misleading.
Large parts below /usr/src/gnu/ *are* BSD-ish. See:
$ sed -n 3,7p /usr/src/gnu/README
This directory contains software that is Gigantic and Nasty but
Unavoidable.
Some, but not all, of the software in this subtree follows special
rules, i.e. licences other than BSD.
Besides, GPL is not a problem when *redistributing* OpenBSD. The
GPL explicitly allows redistribution, and the source code is available
as required. It only becomes a potential problem if you want to
change a GPL-licensed file and then distribute binaries of the
changed version. But before starting to edit any file, you look
at the license header in that file in the first place and consider
the implications, don't you? So you don't need any list for that,
either.
Yours,
Ingo
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