Re: [PATCH] Add openSUSE specific command completions

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 1 May 2011 20:40:07 -0400 (EDT)
"Benjamin R. Haskell" <zsh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:49:43 +0200 İsmail Dönmez wrote:
> >> These completions were getting rot in openSUSE zsh package. It would 
> >> be nice to get them included upstream.
> >
> > Thanks, just got back from holiday, skipped with glazed eyes over 
> > zillions of emails but noticed this and committed it.
> 
> I noticed that a couple of those (_osc and _zypper) had copyright 
> notices in the files (which didn't seem to match the submitter), and 
> that they were "released under the GPLv2."
> 
> Are those okay to include without Zsh itself being GPL'ed?  I see the 
> LICENCE file states that "any provisions made in individual files take 
> precedence."  That makes it fine?

I'm not aware of it being a problem in shell functions, at least.
Typically it's after compilation where we need to be particularly
careful.  We already have GNU functions for configuration etc., although
that's a special case.

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