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According to the link I posted their goal is to publish OpenBSD under the terms of the original BSD license (so 2-Clause BSD, 3-Clause BSD, MIT, ISC, etc. are a
by teamhappy 10y ago
According to the link I posted their goal is to publish OpenBSD under the terms of the original BSD license (so 2-Clause BSD, 3-Clause BSD, MIT, ISC, etc. are all fine).
The Apache license v2 is more restrictive than BSD-style licenses so they can't include code licensed under it.
- michaelmrose 10y agoIts not clear that there is any legal restriction on them doing so.
- teamhappy 10y agoIn the sense that it would be perfectly legal for them to include Apache v2 licensed code? What in the world would restrict them from doing so? They can include Apache v2 code, GPLed code, proprietary code, any code they want, really. Their goal however is to build an OS that can be used under the terms of a BSD-style license similar to Debian's goal to build an OS that is "free."
- eridius 10y agoBut if they're already shipping GPLv2 code then they've already failed at this goal.
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