[Rule-list] Thoughts on licensing

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 4/2/2002 09:31 PM -0500, Devon wrote:
>Slinky is Several things:
>A boot disk containing:
>Busybox - GPL
>uClibc - LGPL
>nano - GPL
>mke2fs - GPL
>cfdisk - GPL
>fdisk - GPL
>syslinux - BSD

For the uninitiated here, can anyone tell us what are the main differences 
between GPL and BSD? That is, those differences about which we actually 
care? All I know is that most/all of the stuff I see, when I actually stop 
to notice licensing, seems to be GPL so I'm all in favor of keeping that 
one. But as you can see, this is a remarkably simplistic analysis... <grin>

>The installed programs (The RPMS) We don't distribute them, they are
>released by Red Hat and others under various licenses. To the best of my
>knowledge, they are all released under licenses that the Free Software
>Foundation lists as "GPL Compatable".

Hope you don't mind the correction... that should be "compatible".


-- 
Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz at indahaus.com


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