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Re:Theo de Raadt on LLVM license change by michaelmrose on Saturday October 01, 2016 @12:32PM (#12618560)
Its not clear that there is any legal restriction on them doing so.
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Re:Theo de Raadt on LLVM license change by teamhappy on Saturday October 01, 2016 @02:45PM (#12619292)
In the sense that it would be perfectly legal for them to include Apache v2 licensed code? What in the world would restrict them from doing so? They can include Apache v2 code, GPLed code, proprietary code, any code they want, really. Their goal however is to build an OS that can be used under the terms of a BSD-style license similar to Debian's goal to build an OS that is "free."
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Re:Theo de Raadt on LLVM license change by eridius on Saturday October 01, 2016 @04:01PM (#12619644)
But if they're already shipping GPLv2 code then they've already failed at this goal.
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