Re: libc license

[Julian Coleman <jdc%coris.org.uk@localhost>]

Hi all,

> The license is more or less per file/system and thus if you include a
> file you have to follow the license.
> 
> A straightforward reading is that when you distribute a binary that you
> must include in accompanying documentation a copy of the license.   It
> follows that distributing binaries without any documentation is not
> permitted.

An example of this in Android, where the copies of all the licences are
collated in the Third-party licences file [*].  If you look there at the
licences for /system/bin/fsck_msdos or /system/bin/newfs_msdos, you can see
that all the source files have a 2-clause BSD licence.

> What does this mean in embedded environments where only the libc would
> be redistributed in binary form?

If you want to redistribute libc, you need to provide some way to display
the licences for every libc source file as part of the documentation for
the embedded device.

Regards,

Julian

[*] To view the licences, the route is something like:
  Settings > About Phone > Legal information > Open Source > Open Source
  licences
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