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Date:      Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:17:37 -0600
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        Volker <volker@vwsoft.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: licensing question APSL
Message-ID:  <20080214191737.GA20098@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <47B49023.20204@vwsoft.com>
References:  <47B3E21F.1010202@vwsoft.com> <20080214150200.GB18534@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <47B49023.20204@vwsoft.com>

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On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 08:01:55PM +0100, Volker wrote:
> On 02/14/08 16:02, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 07:39:27AM +0100, Volker wrote:
> >> PRs in question: bin/67307 bin/67308
> >=20
> > The quotes on the followup are essentially correct except that explicit
> > approval is required by core to add new Non-BSD-Licensed code and
> > that there would need to be a mechanism to not build them as part of
> > buildworld to allow environments that do not want to deal with the APSL
> > to avoid it similar to GPL or CDDL code.
>=20
> Brooks,
>=20
> thank you for your opinion on that. The PR followup stating the APSL
> license is ok, has been the statement of the original PR submitter, so I
> don't trust that in the first place. That's why I was asking here for
> that license if there's a common agreement.
>=20
> So I can assume the APSL license is (still) generally accepted for the BS=
Ds?

APSL is not generally accepted in the base.  It may be acceptable in
certain circumstances, but strong technical justification is generally
required for inclusion.

-- Brooks

> If nobody complains about the APSL, I'll ping core for a green flag.
>=20
> Thanks
>=20
> Volker
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>=20

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