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Date:      Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:02:01 -0600
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        Volker <volker@vwsoft.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: licensing question APSL
Message-ID:  <20080214150200.GB18534@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <47B3E21F.1010202@vwsoft.com>
References:  <47B3E21F.1010202@vwsoft.com>

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On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 07:39:27AM +0100, Volker wrote:
> While working through the PR backlog, I found two PRs filed containing
> source code for two tools (decomment, relpath) under the Apple Public
> Source License (APSL).
>=20
> I think these tools aren't that bad but before pinging any committer
> with that, I thought I might throw the question on the table: What
> about importing code under the APSL license? Has there been any
> consensus in the past about that license?
>=20
> I'm not a lawyer but the license seems to be reasonable suited for the
> BSD projects.
>=20
> 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

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