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Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@twincling.org>
Subject: Re: ASL 2.0 based software contribution to FreeBSD code base
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On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, David Schultz wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009, Saifi Khan wrote:
> > Is there anything specified in the FreeBSD project, that would
> > prohibit ASL 2.0 licensed device drivers from being used in 
> > the OS ?
> 
> No, but core@ would have to approve it. I presume their decision
> would take into consideration technical justification, terms of
> the license, and how the proposed code interacts with other
> components in the base system.
> 

Great ! Thats very encouraging. Thanks Dave.

System code (drivers included) released under standard ASL 2.0
license should work.


thanks
Saifi.