From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 14 14:58:01 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 D953D16A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:58:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.freebsd.org.cn (dns3.freebsd.org.cn [61.129.66.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C8D2543D55 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:57:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from delphij@frontfree.net) Received: (qmail 24513 invoked by uid 0); 14 Feb 2005 14:49:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO beastie.frontfree.net) (219.239.99.7) by mail.freebsd.org.cn with SMTP; 14 Feb 2005 14:49:15 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.frontfree.net [127.0.0.1]) by beastie.frontfree.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DB90132D46; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:57:43 +0800 (CST) Received: from beastie.frontfree.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (beastie.frontfree.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 60269-02; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:57:30 +0800 (CST) Received: by beastie.frontfree.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 20365131D1E; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:57:30 +0800 (CST) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:57:29 +0800 From: Xin LI To: Joerg Schilling Message-ID: <20050214145729.GA59801@frontfree.net> References: <0A907D6523E90246822D32FA2344E244015E4B@CAA-UNCLMAIL.caa.army.mil> <20050212005228.GA43996@VARK.MIT.EDU> <4210898E.nailAB92J9B99@burner> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4210898E.nailAB92J9B99@burner> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-key-ID/Fingerprint: 0xCAEEB8C0 / 43B8 B703 B8DD 0231 B333 DC28 39FB 93A0 CAEE B8C0 X-GPG-Public-Key: http://www.delphij.net/delphij.asc X-Operating-System: FreeBSD beastie.frontfree.net 5.3-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #15: Wed Dec 15 10:43:16 CST 2004 delphij@beastie.frontfree.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BEASTIE i386 X-URL: http://www.delphij.net X-By: delphij@beastie.frontfree.net X-Location: Beijing, China X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at frontfree.net cc: tomonage2@gmx.de cc: das@freebsd.org cc: ed.smithiii@us.army.mil cc: freebsd-current@freesd.org cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org 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 14:58:02 -0000 --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 12:20:46PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > David Schultz wrote: > > 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. >=20 > I believe that FreeBSD could e.g. use DTrace. >=20 > In order to make it work under FreeBSD, it needs porting. >=20 > Then the ported source code will be put on the FreeBSD ftp server. >=20 > 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 avail= able". But there is no such requirement exist in a BSD License. No essential parts of FreeBSD should be covered by any licenses that enforces more restrictions than the BSD License. FreeBSD don't use glibc, etc. for this reason, in the base system. star is in the FreeBSD ports collection. So what's your question? Cheers, --=20 Xin LI http://www.delphij.net/ See complete headers for GPG key and other information. --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCELxZ/cVsHxFZiIoRAn2+AJ4hPKvCFQt03+4/6qLt15WJc28Z2wCeKwf5 jmTfQ0T97XTCVnYy1FehMJU= =KWy4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi--