Re: CVS commit: src/external

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

maya%netbsd.org@localhost writes:

> On Sun, Apr 08, 2018 at 04:57:07PM +0000, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
>> @@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ The licenses currently used are:
>>  	mpl		Mozilla Public license.
>>  			https://opensource.org/licenses/MPL-2.0
>>  
>> +	nvidia-firmware	NVIDIA firmware license permitting redistribution for
>> +			use on operating systems distributed under the terms
>> +			of an OSI-approved open source license.
>> +
>>  	public-domain	Non-license for code that has been explicitly put
>>  			into the Public Domain.
>> 
>
> Can we talk to someone with legal expertise before importing code under
> this license?

One issue is that NetBSD's license permits proprietary derived works
(that's the BSD point).  But this really means that people doing that
have to drop the nvidia firmware, and probably other firmware (or get a
license).

To be amusingly pedantic, adding this means that NetBSD's license is
some combination of BSD, GPL (omitting details, MPL, etc. for brevity)
and the nvidia license.  However the nvidia license is not open source,
so NetBSD with nvidia fails to be OSI-approved.  But it seems unlikely
that NVIDIA means this interpretation.