[ros-users] BSD license questions

[Nicholas Butko]

I have a general question about BSD licenses for statically compiled
libraries.

The BSD license states, among other things,

{{{
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification,
are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

   ...

  * Redistribution's in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice,
    this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
documentation
    and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
}}}

Is shipping an executable that statically links portions of a BSD library
"redistribution"? Does the BSD license agreement need to incorporated in
that case?

The above clause is meant to apply to the library. However, when using
statically linked libraries, they become incorporated into a larger binary,
which is usually not redistributable.

How are these cases usually interpreted?

--Nick
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