Re: [fedora-java] Including classes from Sun's demo code in a Fedora package

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 16:11 +0100, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> [ Sorry, Ignacio, I initially sent this just to you ... ]
> 2009/2/11 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams :
> > Yes, and note the change in license, since not all the code is GPLed.
>
> But isn't a composite work made of GPL and BSD bits ultimately GPL? I
> thought that's how it works, and Wikipedia seems to back me up
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Compatibility_and_mu...),
> although of course that's not authoritative. :)

This specific scenario was a point of contention a while back, when
Linux took some driver code from one of the *BSDs. The gist of it is
that source code doesn't stop being BSD just because the binary is GPL.