19 Mar
2017
19 Mar
'17
1:23 a.m.
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Random832 <random832(a)fastmail.com> wrote:
There's a lot of code in a handful of
not-part-of-GNU-proper core
utility packages used in Linux distributions - bsdmainutils, bsdgames,
bsdutils, and util-linux [only the last of which has the GPL] - which
come from some BSD or another and mostly have intact UCB copyright
statements and licenses at the top. If any of these are improperly
attributed, it's likely that UCB is to blame.
Anything in 4.4-lite was specifically blessed by USL as non-infringing
as part of the settlement of that suit...
But the bsd* packages aren't what's being talked about here. Those
generally came about later as these BSD programs ported to Linux and
resistance to non-gpl'd code in distributions waned.
Warner