Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 23:13:43 -0400 From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com> Subject: Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core Message-ID: <201010062313.47317.jkim@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <86fwwjyurd.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> References: <86fwwjyurd.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>
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On Wednesday 06 October 2010 03:40 pm, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/178267 > > And yes, there it is, in > /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/acpica/hardware/hwsleep.c: > > * 4.3. Licensee shall not export, either directly or indirectly, > any of this * software or system incorporating such software > without first obtaining any * required license or other approval > from the U. S. Department of Commerce or * any other agency or > department of the United States Government. In the * event > Licensee exports any such software from the United States or * > re-exports any such software from a foreign destination, Licensee > shall * ensure that the distribution and export/re-export of the > software is in * compliance with all laws, regulations, orders, or > other restrictions of the * U.S. Export Administration Regulations. > Licensee agrees that neither it nor * any of its subsidiaries will > export/re-export any technical data, process, * software, or > service, directly or indirectly, to any country for which the * > United States government or any agency thereof requires an export > license, * other governmental approval, or letter of assurance, > without first obtaining * such license, approval or letter. > > So, is such approval on file with the FreeBSD Foundation? Please stop the FUD. ACPICA is actually triple-licensed, i.e., generic Intel software license, (three-clause) BSD-like license, and GPLv2. For example, please see the same file on Linux: http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/drivers/acpi/acpica/hwsleep.c?v=linux-2.6 When a new ACPICA release is merged to Linux tree, it is pre-processed with acpisrc (which is also included in ACPICA release tarball) and all C source files are converted to Linux style. Actually this tool replaces the generic Intel license with the actual BSD/GPLv2 dual license header at the same time: http://git.moblin.org/cgit.cgi/acpica/tree/source/tools/acpisrc The following file contains source conversion table for Linux: http://git.moblin.org/cgit.cgi/acpica/tree/source/tools/acpisrc/astable.c#n158 Historically FreeBSD never touched the license header. However, I am going to do it next time to avoid confusions. Jung-uk Kim
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