From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 14 19:17:39 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43BC316A418 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:17:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (cl-162.ewr-01.us.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:4830:1200:a1::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBA0213C459 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:17:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m1EJHbnv021020; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:17:37 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: (from brooks@localhost) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.1/8.13.8/Submit) id m1EJHb2p021019; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:17:37 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from brooks) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:17:37 -0600 From: Brooks Davis To: Volker Message-ID: <20080214191737.GA20098@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <47B3E21F.1010202@vwsoft.com> <20080214150200.GB18534@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <47B49023.20204@vwsoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47B49023.20204@vwsoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (lor.one-eyed-alien.net [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:17:37 -0600 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: licensing question APSL X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:17:39 -0000 --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 08:01:55PM +0100, Volker wrote: > On 02/14/08 16:02, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 07:39:27AM +0100, Volker wrote: > >> PRs in question: bin/67307 bin/67308 > >=20 > > The quotes on the followup are essentially correct except that explicit > > approval is required by core to add new Non-BSD-Licensed code and > > that there would need to be a mechanism to not build them as part of > > buildworld to allow environments that do not want to deal with the APSL > > to avoid it similar to GPL or CDDL code. >=20 > Brooks, >=20 > thank you for your opinion on that. The PR followup stating the APSL > license is ok, has been the statement of the original PR submitter, so I > don't trust that in the first place. That's why I was asking here for > that license if there's a common agreement. >=20 > So I can assume the APSL license is (still) generally accepted for the BS= Ds? APSL is not generally accepted in the base. It may be acceptable in certain circumstances, but strong technical justification is generally required for inclusion. -- Brooks > If nobody complains about the APSL, I'll ping core for a green flag. >=20 > Thanks >=20 > Volker > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHtJPQXY6L6fI4GtQRAncyAJ9V2p9+fT1tseVmtLGj1SmVZgitCQCfdmbG YlGEP9ZGhl1RIy8mi/Z1+58= =LX0r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn--