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Your answer and the one from another commenter mention distribution. In this spirit, is there any legal issue with downloading perf and libbfd separately, comp
by tverbeure 5y ago
Your answer and the one from
another commenter mention distribution.
In this spirit, is there any legal issue with downloading perf and libbfd separately, compiling it, and running using it for yourself only? I assume not?
What about using it then as a tool within your company? That might be seen as distribution, and thus not allowed?
- geofft 5y agoThere's no legal issue with using it yourself. Debian's problem is that, as a distro, they are creating a single product - the Debian operating system. Debian could even ship you something that compiles perf against libbfd on your own system. This is the approach they take with ZFS and Linux, which are under incompatible licenses (CDDL and GPLv2): https://bits.debian.org/2016/05/what-does-it-mean-that-zfs-is-in-debian.html https://bits.debian.org/2016/05/what-does-it-mean-that-zfs-i... A company is generally a single legal person and so there's no "distribution", but https://www.jolts.world/index.php/jolts/article/view/66/125 https://www.jolts.world/index.php/jolts/article/view/66/125 is a law review article that discusses the complexities here. If you employ contractors, or if the company as a whole is purchased, the answer is apparently blurrier.
- tverbeure 5y agoThanks!