From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 7 09:11:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA20418 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 09:11:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA20410 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 09:11:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA29918; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 08:51:57 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704071551.IAA29918@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: ipfilter compilation To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 08:51:57 -0700 (MST) Cc: proff@suburbia.net, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Doug Rabson" at Apr 7, 97 00:08:27 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > The problem with this is that packages in src/sys/contrib/* may have > > non-BSD copyrights -- but because it is under sys, you don't have any > > choice in the matter. > > I thought about this but it didn't seem to be a problem since there is a > mix of GNU and BSD copyrights in the src/contrib tree already. Having a > similar mix in the src/sys/contrib tree would be OK. Well, I suppose it would be OK. If we never compiled or linked the code for them. Otherwise, the resulting kernel would not be redistributable. Contrib code is generally seperate -- it fits under the mere agregation clause. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.