Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:57:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com> Cc: David Schultz <das@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@twincling.org> Subject: Re: ASL 2.0 based software contribution to FreeBSD code base Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903120756480.61873@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <2fd864e0903112112t33e63ff6ke00200b6a7ccdb83@mail.gmail.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0903111340230.5968@localhost> <012E1E4D-4C4E-414E-971E-ADCC48EB0698@mac.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0903120723130.9463@localhost> <20090312025921.GA17420@zim.MIT.EDU> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0903120841160.9463@localhost> <2fd864e0903112112t33e63ff6ke00200b6a7ccdb83@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Astrodog wrote: > with the new license). As far as I'm aware, there's a very, very strong > preference for kernel code expected to be part of GENERIC to be BSD > licensed. It's not a preference, it's a requirement. > However, if its dynamically loadable or not part of GENERIC, I don't think > the license even matters a whole lot. Everything from ath_hal, to nvidia > drivers, to GPLv2 code gets into KLDs and the like. Obviously, anything anyone distributes as a third party (not in our tree), they can do what they want with. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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