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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>
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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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