On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 at 13:09 Paul Jakma <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]

> Anyway, a small, non-exhaustive sampling with rough, incomplete notes -
> for the sake of speed:
>

Thanks!

I may be missing something here, but none of the examples you gave show any
signs of being derived code. They *use* vty.[ch], but do not include any of
their code (bear in mind that I'm not familiar with either code base).

Being merely dependent on third-party code is not, to my understanding,
sufficient to be considered derived code.

It looks like this is a clearcut case of aggregation:

somepackage/gpllibrary/COPYING.GPL
somepackage/bsdlibrary/COPYING.BSD
somepackage/COPYING.GPL

bsdlibrary can be distributed *on its own* under the terms of the BSD, but
if it's distributed along with gpllibrary, then the combined licensing
terms of both libraries can only be met by the combined package being
distributed under the terms of the GPL.

In FRR's case, the combined repository is clearly labelled as being
distributable under the terms of the GPL. This all looks fine to me.

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