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From: jkh@whisker.internet-eireann.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Libraries
Date: 24 Jun 1995 19:24:20 GMT
Organization: Internet Eireann
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In-reply-to: kaila@crl.com's message of 24 Jun 1995 10:52:15 -0700
In article <3shjcf$kd0@crl7.crl.com> kaila@crl.com (Christine Maxwell) writes:
I am interested in doing some development for FreeBSD, both freeware
and commercial. I am however, worried about the license restrictions on
the function libraries included... Can anyone give me an idea which
libraries (and / or functions) are under the GPL so I can avoid using them?
If you're doing development, then the first thing I suggest that you
do is load the full source distribution. You'll need it anyway!
Once you've done that, then the GPL'd bits become obvious: They're all
under /usr/src/sys/gnu and /usr/src/gnu. Any libraries or binaries
built from those locations are, naturally, GPL'd.
Note also that the LGPL (Library version of GPL) covers just about
everything you'd ever need to link with and is far more relaxed about
"contamination" than the GPL itself is. I would read them both, just
to be sure.
Jordan