From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 10:16:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B84A310656FF for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:16:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C75D8FC08 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:16:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from vhoffman.lon.namesco.net (150.117-84-212.staticip.namesco.net [212.84.117.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id n0LAH9GU013962 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:17:10 GMT (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <4976F5E2.7090907@unsane.co.uk> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:16:02 +0000 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Saifi Khan References: <9a52b1190901201015v68473203w649af60b08fca0d2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9a52b1190901201015v68473203w649af60b08fca0d2@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ASL 2.0 based software contribution to FreeBSD code base X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:16:07 -0000 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list (http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=163526+0+current/freebsd-current) Brooks Davis said "This file is outdated.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