Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 07:58:39 +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: r45153 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing Message-ID: <201406290758.s5T7wdgf073103@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: eadler Date: Sun Jun 29 07:58:38 2014 New Revision: 45153 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45153 Log: There is an ongoing effort to replace GPL portions of FreeBSD with free software alternatives. The statement that GPL is acceptable is no longer correct. The surrounding documentation is actually more strict than it should be (for example, we accept the CDDL license). However, this is not in the scope of this change. 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 07:51:30 2014 (r45152) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.xml Sun Jun 29 07:58:38 2014 (r45153) @@ -411,30 +411,6 @@ 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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