From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 20 15:25:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA0316A4BF for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:25:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-107-97.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.107.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56B6B43FAF for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:25:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0259566B04; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:25:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DB95BA56; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:25:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:25:24 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Theo Markettos Message-ID: <20030820222524.GB87772@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030820213337.GA27460@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MW5yreqqjyrRcusr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030820213337.GA27460@chiark.greenend.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD licence and 'the advertisement clause' X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 22:25:26 -0000 --MW5yreqqjyrRcusr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:33:38PM +0100, Theo Markettos wrote: > I'm looking to incorporate some source from FreeBSD into a project of mine > under the GPL. I see that Berkeley dropped their requirement on the > advertising clause which makes FreeBSD code compatible with the GPL. The > main FreeBSD licence doesn't include the advertising clause. >=20 > However, much of FreeBSD's source still includes the advertising clause.= =20 > For example src/sys/net/if.h and src/sys/net/radix.h in source checked out > of CVS a few days ago. Most of these are for Berkeley, although there ar= e a > few for other individuals. >=20 > What is the licensing position? Code that is copyrighted by the Regents has the license change, everything else does not. Many FreeBSD contributors will be happy to drop the clause if you just ask, though. Kris --MW5yreqqjyrRcusr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/Q/VUWry0BWjoQKURAsvTAKDHzFMuITpMu0+7N0Hb29iKy4iYlgCdFixK sWJrPFZQLWF3TaZBvtE5beY= =cjQR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MW5yreqqjyrRcusr--