Re: OpenBSD bcw: Possible GPL license violation issues

[Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>]

> Please understand that the fact that Linux is under the GPL prohibits
> us from accepting purely BSD licensed code, it's not Linus' decision
> -- that is just the way the license works.

Just to make it clear to anyone that this is not the way the GPL
works, I want to point you all to a little known directory called

	binutils/gprof/

This contains files like i386.c which starts as you can see below.

So you can see that the GPL does not prohibit mixing GPL'd files and
3-term BSD licenses.  Who prohibits it?  Linus.  Or someone near him,
with an agenda.  It is a policy decision.  So waving around the GPL
and saying things like you do above, in bad faith, is not cool.

If you go grep for 'Regents' through other FSF source distributions
you can find many more 3-term BSD licensed code all over the place.
So don't lie to us Luis, pretty please?  If 3-term BSD is good enough
for the the FSF, then we can justly come to the conclusion that this
"no BSD code in Linux" problem is in fact just Linus' decision.

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/*
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#include "gprof.h"
#include "search_list.h"
#include "source.h"
#include "symtab.h"
#include "cg_arcs.h"
#include "corefile.h"
#include "hist.h"

static int i386_iscall PARAMS ((unsigned char *));
void i386_find_call PARAMS ((Sym *, bfd_vma, bfd_vma));

static int
i386_iscall (ip)
...