Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 22:03:32 -0700 From: Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> To: Marcin Cieslak <saper@saper.info> Cc: David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com>, Geoffrey Huntley <ghuntley@ghuntley.com>, Freebsd-mono <freebsd-mono@freebsd.org>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DotNet Core on FreeBSD Message-ID: <CABx9NuTpxj8g2s1OtNUrg_8g-c3CS9Lph2DcMJarmxi%2Bbzf51g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CABx9NuTxcgDfe8oApu%2BsChN3wGfYHC_RNBeakxoh=7sK6_1O=g@mail.gmail.com> References: <CABx9NuQVGCnn32pNz2Opbnua8wwuuYjTDJyq3qO0iF%2BkiGfVBg@mail.gmail.com> <nycvar.OFS.7.76.6.1709100805500.3008@z.fncre.vasb> <20170910155228.6545490.82502.31658@gmail.com> <CABx9NuTxcgDfe8oApu%2BsChN3wGfYHC_RNBeakxoh=7sK6_1O=g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> wrote= : > Hey Marcin, > > So I just read the Contribution License Agreement and I didn't see > anything untoward. > > https://cla2.dotnetfoundation.org/cladoc/net-foundation-contribution-lice= nse-agreement.pdf > > Just remember all these projects are MIT, Apache 2 or CC license. I > think bringing this code into FreeBSD is a bonkers good idea. (Kaboom! > lolz). Especially if you think about how much proprietary code is out > there on Windows that people will want to protect. A FreeNAS style > management console would make FreeBSD a particularly attractive offer > over GPL licensed OSes for companies to create appliance style systems > (physical or virtual, a-la FreeNAS). Jails become yet another great > way to distribute proprietary code. > > Sony PS 3&4, NetApp and now Nintendo Switch are all great examples of > what you can do with FreeBSD in a proprietary system. > > Dot Net Core also opens up Arm based systems on FreeBSD in some ways > because it's specifically designed do be modular. I don't think Mono > has built on Arm for a long time and the performance of Mono has been > a problem of note. > > Russ I'm trying to perform due diligence because I want to throw some time into this. Avoiding GPL and other encumbering licenses is important to me. I had to know myself so I made this list of licenses: https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang - Microsoft https://github.com/dotnet/cli - https://www.microsoft.com/net/dotnet_library_license.htm https://github.com/dotnet/source-build - MIT https://github.com/dotnet/core-setup - MIT https://github.com/dotnet/corefx - MIT https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr - MIT https://github.com/dotnet/sdk - MIT https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-docker - MIT https://github.com/dotnet/standard - MIT https://github.com/dotnet/sdk - MIT https://github.com/dotnet/netcorecli-fsc - MIT https://github.com/nuget/home - A2 https://github.com/aspnet/home - A2 https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn - A2 https://github.com/aspnet/Docs - CC https://github.com/dotnet/docs - CC Russ > On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> wro= te: >> Sorry for the top post, >> >> Marcin, can you expand on your thoughts about the contributor license? T= his has been one of the concerns of mine=E2=80=8E (part of the pedanticism)= . I didn't get a chance to read the doc itself yet. >> >> Russ >> >> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Virgin Mobile network. >> Original Message >> From: Marcin Cieslak >> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2017 1:13 AM >> To: Russell Haley >> Cc: David Naylor; Geoffrey Huntley; Freebsd-mono; freebsd-advocacy@freeb= sd.org; freebsd-ports@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: DotNet Core on FreeBSD >> >> On Sun, 10 Sep 2017, Russell Haley wrote: >> >>> Hey guys, >>> >>> I am talking to Karel and Tomas at Microsoft's DotNet Core Team about >>> putting together a "proposal" for community involvement, which will be >>> followed by more information on this list. Most of the talk has been >>> me blowing air and being pedantic about nothing (I get excited and >>> type alot). >> >> I was tinkering around FreeBSD support when dotnet core was first publis= hed. >> Stack unwinding for exceptions was very hacky at the time, and there wer= e >> some unnecessary discussions about how to implement some FreeBSD sepecif= ic >> sysctl's. I got a bit frustrated with that (a whole porting effort is ab= out >> coercing Unix to offer part of Win32 APIs). >> >> It was somewhat running on FreeBSD natively back then, haven't checked >> recently. >> >> I have also decided not to sign their bad contributor agreement >> and some of the sysctl code I decided to put in mono instead :) >> >> Marcin >> saper on github
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