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Subject: Re: ASL 2.0 based software contribution to FreeBSD code base
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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