Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installation?

Re:Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installat... by toast0 on Saturday May 30, 2020 @11:21AM (#23361764)

Anything that significantly restricts use isn't something that you can distribute as part of a BSD licensed system. The restrictions on that piece would need to be met by anyone using or redistributing the system, which is a significant departure from expectations.

Certainly, you can use GPL software with a BSD licensed system, and you can distribute GPL packages to be installed on a BSD licensed system, but if you include GPL software in a BSD system, it's no longer a BSD system.

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Re:Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installat... by trasz on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:16PM (#23362176)

Indeed, but it’s not license compatibility - in Open Source world that problem can only happen with GPL.

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Re:Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installat... by toast0 on Saturday May 30, 2020 @01:05PM (#23362647)

How is that not license compatability?

If the license prevents otherwise useful software from being used in the base system, what would you call it?

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Re:Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installat... by trasz on Saturday May 30, 2020 @04:01PM (#23364141)

The term „license incompatibility” is used in situations where you cannot use of a different license in a single program. Usual example is incompatibility between GPL and anything that’s not a subset of GPL.

The situation here is different: it’s about distribution, and it’s up to you, the distributor, to decide whether you want to include restrictively licensed software or not. With license incompatibility, you don’t get that choice: you just cannot legally distribute it.

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