From owner-svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 29 07:58:39 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5FDA72FB; Sun, 29 Jun 2014 07:58:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 341EF2291; Sun, 29 Jun 2014 07:58:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s5T7wdRx073104; Sun, 29 Jun 2014 07:58:39 GMT (envelope-from eadler@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from eadler@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id s5T7wdgf073103; Sun, 29 Jun 2014 07:58:39 GMT (envelope-from eadler@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201406290758.s5T7wdgf073103@svn.freebsd.org> From: Eitan Adler Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 07:58:39 +0000 (UTC) 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 X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees \(except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 07:58:39 -0000 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. - - - - - GPL - GNU General Public License - - - - GNU General Public License - - The GNU General Public License, or GPL. - 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 - /sys/gnu or - /usr/src/gnu, and - is therefore easily identifiable to anyone for whom the - GPL presents a problem. - Contributions coming under any other type of copyright