Re: [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".


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