Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:16:47 -0700 From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core Message-ID: <86zkuqvgio.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> In-Reply-To: <201010062313.47317.jkim@FreeBSD.org> (Jung-uk Kim's message of "Wed, 6 Oct 2010 23:13:43 -0400") References: <86fwwjyurd.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <201010062313.47317.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
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>>>>> "Jung-uk" == Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> writes: Jung-uk> Please stop the FUD. ACPICA is actually triple-licensed, i.e., Jung-uk> generic Intel software license, (three-clause) BSD-like license, and Jung-uk> GPLv2. [...] Jung-uk> Historically FreeBSD never touched the license header. However, I am Jung-uk> going to do it next time to avoid confusions. Then. Please. Do. I would have never brought this up (nor would the OpenBSD list before me) if the right license was here. Geez. What a wasted amount of effort. If anything to be learned from here, it's use the right boilerplate when you include something into the distro. Otherwise, smart people will react to license notices because yes indeed, THESE MATTER. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion
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