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Glibc Is Finally Free Software

Posted by timothy on from the after-the-fact dept.

WebMink writes "Despite the fervour of some, the dark secret of every GNU/Linux distribution is that, until August 18 this year, it depended on software that was under a non-Free license — incompatible with the Open Source Definition and non-Free according to Debian and the FSF. A long tale of tenacity and software archeology has finally led to that software appearing under the 3-clause BSD license — ironically, at the behest of an Oracle VP. The result is that glibc, portmap and NFS are no longer tainted."

2 of 337 comments (clear)

  1. Re:They released it under the BSD license? by Bobakitoo · · Score: 0, Troll

    Lol. The twit who moded that "insightful" need to lookup irony.

  2. Re:They released it under the BSD license? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm sorry, but the BSD license isn't free enough for me. The BSD license does nothing to let me write code that, for example, hacks into people's bank accounts and transfers all their money to mine. A truly FREE license would make that legal.