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presumably GNU grep is GPL and incompatible with their BSD license
by jtmcmc 13y ago
presumably GNU grep is GPL and incompatible with their BSD license
- snogglethorpe 13y agoThe GNU GPL is perfectly compatible with their BSD license... :] It's just that the end result is then restricted by the GPL, and they don't want that.
- jamesaguilar 13y agoThat is what "not compatible" means.
- snogglethorpe 13y agoYou can release some software that contains both GNU GPL and BSD-licensed code, and it will be legal to distribute as long as you follow the rules of both licenses; as the rules of these licenses do not conflict, there's no legal problem. This is what most people mean when they say two FOSS licenses are "compatible."
- belorn 13y agoIs grep part of the BSD base system?