Re: ASL 2.0 based software contribution to FreeBSD code base
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk 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Brooks Davis bro...@freebsd.org said This file is outdated.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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ASL 2.0 based software contribution to FreeBSD code base
Saifi Khan wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk 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 bro...@freebsd.org 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 ? I'm in no way a licence expert and I'm not a FreeBSD developer, however my understanding (from sources such as [http://wiki.freebsd.org/VendorInformation]) is that in answer to your original questions a) Device drivers - yes but it cannot be included in the GENERIC config, but thats what modules are for anyway. b) Kernel/base system - No - I belive this would need to be BSD licensed. c) userland - Yes but probably needs to be in the contrib directory as an example, all the ZFS stuff is CDDL licenced , This had to be kept separate from pretty much everything but it's there. However I could well be wrong and its almost certainly worth asking these questions again on the freebsd-current mailing list where developers who might actually know the answers hang out. Vince ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ASL 2.0 based software contribution to FreeBSD code base
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 bro...@freebsd.org 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. Vince ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
ASL 2.0 based software contribution to FreeBSD code base
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 ? -- thanks Saifi. Twincling Technology Foundation freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
