Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 18:34:20 +0000 (UTC) From: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r49636 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201611031834.uA3IYKgp005162@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: emaste (src committer) Date: Thu Nov 3 18:34:20 2016 New Revision: 49636 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49636 Log: Update/clarify core@ licensing issues for the quarter Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml Thu Nov 3 15:41:42 2016 (r49635) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml Thu Nov 3 18:34:20 2016 (r49636) @@ -1302,25 +1302,23 @@ <ul> <li>Importing Concurrency Kit. In consultation with the - Foundation's legal counsel, it was determined that the - relevant patents on the 'Read Copy Update' synchronization - mechanisms have expired, and consequently the import of - selected parts of concurrency kit was approved.</li> + Foundation's legal counsel, it was determined that + importing selected parts of concurrency kit is acceptable, + and has been approved.</li> <li>The proposal to create a shadow GPLv3 toolchain repository was put to the community. Ultimately the whole idea has been rendered largely redundant by faster than anticipated - progress at integrating the latest LLVM toolchain on most of - the interesting system architectures. The goal of a - GPL-free base system is within our grasp.</li> - - <li>Reports that GPL code has been pasted into linuxkpi - sources are under investigation. Core would like to stress - that great care must be taken to avoid inadvertent license - infringement, especially when implementing hardware - interfaces or similar where there is limited scope to invent - new constants or otherwise make it clear this is a novel - implementation.</li> + progress on the external toolchain ports and packages for + those architectures where LLVM is not yet sufficieintly + mature.</li> + + <li>Concerns were raised about handling GPL code in work in + progress on the linuxkpi shim. This issue is not related to + the FreeBSD svn repository but Core would like to stress + that care must be taken to avoid license infringement and + plans to write a set of guidelines for handling GPL + code.</li> </ul> <p>Work on LLVM has thrown up problems with the presence of
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