Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:18:27 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@twincling.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ASL 2.0 based software contribution to FreeBSD code base Message-ID: <012E1E4D-4C4E-414E-971E-ADCC48EB0698@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0903111340230.5968@localhost> References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0903111340230.5968@localhost>
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On Mar 11, 2009, at 6:43 AM, Saifi Khan wrote: > Is Apache Software License (ASL) 2.0 based software contributions > accepted in FreeBSD code base ? There is a strong preference for the "Simplified" or 2-clause BSD license. The ASL2 more closely resembles the old or 4-clause BSD license including the "advertising clause". There does not appear to be any code under the ASL2 in FreeBSD at present, although OpenSSL is dual-licensed and part of it resembles the ASL2. > Specific case to consider would be: > a. device driver code released under ASL 2.0 > > b. code contributed to kernel (eg. scheduler implementation) > under ASL 2.0 > > c. code contributed to userland (eg. new implementation of > ctags) under ASL 2.0 > > Can some of the experienced members share how things work within the > context of FreeBSD project ? Likely that some of these cases (ie, c) would handled by having the software be in the ports tree rather than in the FreeBSD base code itself, but the decision would be up to FreeBSD's core team.... Regards, -- -Chuck
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