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Hmmm... in what way does Git being GPL/LGPL cause licence problems for the BSDs ?
by gribbly 9y ago
Hmmm... in what way does Git being GPL/LGPL cause licence problems for the BSDs ?
- teamhappy 9y agoI guess you'd want to be able to include it in your distribution. FreeBSD for example includes svn (or svnlite or whatever) so you can fetch/update the source and do a buildkernel or buildworld without having to install any ports.
- gribbly 9y agoBut you can include Git in the distribution, it's a self-contained program, it's license won't affect anything else it ships alongside with.
- teamhappy 9y ago> The FreeBSD Project aims to produce a complete, > BSD-licensed operating system allowing consumers of the > system to produce derivative products without constraint > or further license obligations. https://www.freebsd.org/internal/software-license.html https://www.freebsd.org/internal/software-license.html Also https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html and https://www.netbsd.org/about/redistribution.html#why-berkeley https://www.netbsd.org/about/redistribution.html#why-berkele...
- gribbly 9y agoOk, so it's license philosophy rather than any actual license legality problematics, I can understand that.
- michaelmrose 9y agoIf someone wanted to produce a FreeBSD derivative would they really need to be able to ship a modified version of git?
- xyzzy_plugh 9y agoProbably not, but then it wouldn't be "Free".
- loeg 9y agoSuffice to say, FreeBSD's current stance on licensing is that new GPL2 software in base is unacceptable, and the goal is to get to no GPL2 software in base.
- jlg23 9y agoIt does affect the users' abilities to hack on the software. Since BSDs are used a lot in commercial environments this is a real concern for BSD-hackers.