From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 14 18:20:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from filk.iinet.net.au (syncopation-dns.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 65A2837B719 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:20:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: (qmail 20597 invoked by uid 666); 15 Mar 2001 02:21:40 -0000 Received: from i077-094.nv.iinet.net.au (HELO elischer.org) (203.59.77.94) by mail.m.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 15 Mar 2001 02:21:40 -0000 Message-ID: <3AB026C4.F37F6567@elischer.org> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:19:48 -0800 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Dillon Cc: Chris Sears , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ecc kld for FreeBSD 4.2 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Dillon wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Chris Sears wrote: > > > Yes, I did notice that there was no licensing. I will broach that > > with him. I can live with GPL since I see this as being a KLD > > which can be installed from source. But I prefer BSD. > > Since not everybody would want to use a module, or even could use a > module, a BSD license would be ideal so that it could be compiled > directly into the kernel. It is entirely up to the author what he > wants to use, of course. don't forget it is possible for it to be simultaniously released under both copyrights. The linux kernel may not take it if it were BSD I think, so if he sends us a copy with the BSD copyright tacked on the front he can still send one with a GPL to the linux people. -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000-2001 ---> X_.---._/ v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message