On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:32:58PM -0800, Julius Davies wrote: > Hi, > > I see the ftp-0.17-51.fc12.i686.rpm says it's "BSD With Advertising." > This isn't the problem: it's all UC-Berkeley, so it can be relicensed > to remove the "With Advertising" clause. > > > My question is this: > > I also see that ftp links against libreadline.so: > > $ ldd ftp-0.17-51.fc12.i686/usr/bin/ftp > libreadline.so.6 > > > Is that okay for BSD code to dynamically link against GPL libraries? Sure, assuming the BSD code is all effectively 3-clause BSD-licensed. -- Richard E. Fontana Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
