Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 17:19:33 +0000 (UTC) From: Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r45163 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing Message-ID: <201406291719.s5THJXXR032639@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: eadler Date: Sun Jun 29 17:19:32 2014 New Revision: 45163 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45163 Log: This section should be replaced by a pointer to an official statement by core. Requested by: imp Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.xml Sun Jun 29 14:50:36 2014 (r45162) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.xml Sun Jun 29 17:19:32 2014 (r45163) @@ -411,6 +411,30 @@ by commercial interests who might eventually be inclined to invest something of their own into FreeBSD.</para> </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + <indexterm> + <primary>GPL</primary> + <see>GNU General Public License</see> + </indexterm> + + <indexterm> + <primary>GNU General Public License</primary> + </indexterm> + The GNU General Public License, or <quote>GPL</quote>. + This license is not quite as popular with us due to the + amount of extra effort demanded of anyone using the code + for commercial purposes, but given the sheer quantity of + GPL'd code we currently require (compiler, assembler, text + formatter, etc) it would be silly to refuse additional + contributions under this license. Code under the GPL also + goes into a different part of the tree, that being + <filename>/sys/gnu</filename> or + <filename>/usr/src/gnu</filename>, and + is therefore easily identifiable to anyone for whom the + GPL presents a problem.</para> + </listitem> </orderedlist> <para>Contributions coming under any other type of copyright
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