From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 14 19:02:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E86816A47B for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:02:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: from frontmail.ipactive.de (frontmail.maindns.de [85.214.95.103]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A3BE13C447 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:02:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: from mail.vtec.ipme.de (Q7d7c.q.ppp-pool.de [89.53.125.124]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by frontmail.ipactive.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86B39128844; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:02:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from cesar.sz.vwsoft.com (cesar.sz.vwsoft.com [192.168.16.3]) by mail.vtec.ipme.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55B813F443; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:00:23 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <47B49023.20204@vwsoft.com> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:01:55 +0100 From: Volker User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080125) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brooks Davis References: <47B3E21F.1010202@vwsoft.com> <20080214150200.GB18534@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <20080214150200.GB18534@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1203620431.16006@LurJTlATvlsgh1RZRdH9Kg X-VWSoft-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: volker@vwsoft.com X-ipactive-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ipactive-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ipactive-MailScanner-From: volker@vwsoft.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: licensing question APSL X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:02:14 -0000 On 02/14/08 16:02, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 07:39:27AM +0100, Volker wrote: >> PRs in question: bin/67307 bin/67308 > > The quotes on the followup are essentially correct except that explicit > approval is required by core to add new Non-BSD-Licensed code and > that there would need to be a mechanism to not build them as part of > buildworld to allow environments that do not want to deal with the APSL > to avoid it similar to GPL or CDDL code. Brooks, thank you for your opinion on that. The PR followup stating the APSL license is ok, has been the statement of the original PR submitter, so I don't trust that in the first place. That's why I was asking here for that license if there's a common agreement. So I can assume the APSL license is (still) generally accepted for the BSDs? If nobody complains about the APSL, I'll ping core for a green flag. Thanks Volker