Copying from my latest blog post, to let the news be spread without surprises:
-- This is a very sad blog by my side, although I hope this can be cleared up soon so that I don’t have to be this sad anymore in the future. Basically, the public Gentoo/FreeBSD development is officially halted starting tonight, as there are some license issues between libkvm and start-stop-daemon . libkvm is a userspace interface to FreeBSD kernel, and it’s licensed under the original BSD license, BSD-4 if you want, the one with the nasty advertising clause[1]. For this reason, until I can clear this problem up, the stages are pulled off from the mirrors, and won’t be put there in the mean time. s-s-d is not the only GPL-released package that links to libkvm actually, GDB does it, too, but I think that on the GPL part, we’re fine with the license, as it’s a library that comes with the operating system, the problem is that we don’t abide to the advertising clause (and we’ll probably never be able to do so) and thus I don’t think we’re allowed to redistribute binaries. I’ve mailed David O’Brien, who maintains the devel/gdb6 port for FreeBSD, hoping that he knows more than me about these interactions, in the mean time, I consider the public development of Gentoo/FreeBSD halted. This does not mean that I won’t continue working on it, but we cannot currently redistribute it. Bear with us until we can find a solution. If we cannot link libkvm, I’m ready to try cleanrooming it into a MIT-licensed library. -- Please note that whatever the problems are, we _are_ going to solve it, and in a short time (no more than a month), so we're not dead nor stopped yet :) -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Sound, ALSA, PAM, KDE, CJK, Ruby ...
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