ANNOUNCE: L4Env version 0.1

Farid Hajji farid.hajji at ob.kamp.net
Tue Jul 1 11:22:32 CEST 2003


> > > L4Env is available under the GPL version 2 licence. For different
> > > licensing schemes please contact drops at os.inf.tu-dresden.de.
> >
> > Is there any reason for this? This is pretty restrictive
> > to developers. Why didn't you consider releasing L4Env under
> > a BSD-style license (like L4Ka::Pistachio), or at least LGPL?
> 
> Since L4env is _not_ entirely written from scratch. We depend on
> some imported stuff which is GPL.

Ah, okay. L4Env shouldn't therefore be used for NetBSD/L4 or
similar porting projects due to license clashes.

Many thanks,

-Farid.

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