From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 14 11:23:01 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D279C16A4CE; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:23:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de (mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de [193.174.154.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E49143D1D; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:23:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de) Received: from burner.fokus.fraunhofer.de (burner [193.175.133.116]) j1EBMkA05812; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:22:46 +0100 (MET) Received: (from jes@localhost)j1EBKkTo013378; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:20:46 +0100 (CET) From: Joerg Schilling Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:20:46 +0100 To: tomonage2@gmx.de, das@freebsd.org Message-ID: <4210898E.nailAB92J9B99@burner> References: <0A907D6523E90246822D32FA2344E244015E4B@CAA-UNCLMAIL.caa.army.mil> <20050212005228.GA43996@VARK.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20050212005228.GA43996@VARK.MIT.EDU> User-Agent: nail 11.2 8/15/04 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:36:56 +0000 cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-current@freesd.org cc: ed.smithiii@us.army.mil cc: schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de Subject: Re: Star & FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:23:02 -0000 David Schultz wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005, Jonathan Weiss wrote: > > > Is the CDDL license compatible with the BSD and MIT licenses? > > > > According to the OpenBSD-folks: NO > > Actually, I think the answer is YES. You're apparently answering > a different question. See below. ... > However, I believe it is generally not possible to use CDDL code > for integral parts of FreeBSD because, like the LGPL, the CDDL > requires that modifications be made available under the CDDL. > It is probably fine for kernel modules and extensions, but that's > something core@ needs to decide. I believe that FreeBSD could e.g. use DTrace. In order to make it work under FreeBSD, it needs porting. Then the ported source code will be put on the FreeBSD ftp server. Somebody who likes to make embedded devices that are based on FreeBSD could point to the FreeBSD ftp server in order to "make the sources available". If someone does not like this at all, he could create a FreeBSD kernel that does not include DTrace support. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily