On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Vincent Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: > Saifi Khan wrote: >> Hi: >> >> Is Apache Software License (ASL) 2.0 based software contributions >> accepted in FreeBSD code base ? >> >> 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 ? >> >> > I was going to answer with > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/pref-license.html > however in a recent discussion on the -current list > (http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=163526+0+current/freebsd-current) > Brooks Davis <[email protected]> said > "This file is outdated. While this remains our prefered license, the > current > OpenBSD prefered license is the ISC licesed which is allowed by the license > policy we published to developers last year. We should probably replace > this > page with that policy." > > I'd ask for a copy of the current policy on freebsd-current@ if you dont > get any answers here. > >
Hi Vince: Thank you for your kind reply. Please see my writeup on ASL at http://www.twincling.org/node/277 While i understand ASL, i'm keen to know what are the technical deviations (if any) in the BSD licsense followed by FreeBSD project. eg. if i write a device driver and release it under ASL 2.0, can it legally make into FreeBSD project ? -- thanks Saifi. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
