From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 14 19:31:04 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 4BB5316A41A for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:31:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E45C913C448 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:31:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [82.95.250.254]) by smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m1EJFClo026610; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:15:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m1EJFBxA025282; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:15:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.6/Submit) id m1EJFBBU025281; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:15:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wb) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:15:11 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Volker Message-ID: <20080214191511.GA25260@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <47B3E21F.1010202@vwsoft.com> <20080214150200.GB18534@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <47B49023.20204@vwsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47B49023.20204@vwsoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:52:58 +0000 Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Brooks Davis 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 19:31:04 -0000 Quoting Volker, who wrote on Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 08:01:55PM +0100 .. > 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 > > > > 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. > > Brooks, > > 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. > > So I can assume the APSL license is (still) generally accepted for the BSDs? Depends on what you call generally accepted. > If nobody complains about the APSL, I'll ping core for a green flag. > > Thanks > > 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" --- end of quoted text --- -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org