From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Jul 24 19:04:35 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC23B1053859 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2018 19:04:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from sonic305-20.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (sonic305-20.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [77.238.177.82]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 62EBD7BC49 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2018 19:04:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) X-YMail-OSG: 9jFxAIQVM1khVzOLNFJITOlXWsBNSQyc4_BcHEIogxCQGwtK_nYHtZuD9EVhFCk KR99cjxgBsI4zaY6o7x7wwJKq1lqa8k_iB_SA4Im_wl71q0x9AXLiEZtQ7MBmEqHWe6qeWynNo2R k_IFJoexqBHx4_Bs9HTJaNrmUvw5OM2.7920MAA_KTrhxYETEqJ3zTQ5oEZTkwzcwa47UuwuS6pU QIdgTOnHnpJKB3C6kaHXoY9LOaaM2QBm8_IwCdV0SlGylqY4vqO33oxtnFjmLRylfM7LWRcmP0ZX CzYzLv3wILO09XTqDdWbv3sLm8_Q6KVpWKoE8pi8XJ9yf5gV8XWoLxt4jMe8opGujpH_B3evYW7I 484YprbPjvjqwsiVsJ50IG3_ympOFuNk1ZHeaNATP_CUB_4jYzThQrA5F1H6h28Uf5KJyZwBzNTc Whs0yejtkyMuUzaUK5FUr1SpIvkXL_MYxQqVAWXgjyN4FccslTinOVWfnj25DAwzUQdmUrciMkdN 5ZeD8iLhEgemvWH5p9.TxWDa.WWsSyjiiNrl4Rph1C6ZgjKlfQvyVA5qKPSepkle57CsfIW6puCe 1oRzWPKENMk4Aod.vwOle1qbRwypUYpjqPsXYkYYH8hxuCGu5aDf4IkSSmZp6b86FC5U3XQv_2Gh pNCdDsNXpNM4UT_3pQ7mCiMk065UzBjz7.0ByIb2DRE9BgEjm2f7dhF7dkj27GLjEGdpJCO9DAZh _THz3OnOs_btNce.lyBKN4OMldkejl83vgNk2FRTWJaV5I2Hf73NY4bWXpT6sbQET286D63iXiLQ _z7XqooMQtRBLYK7MS8NWCuZE7Whif804syzCMaorQEnJ8ip63rtmE_ecFikqXSOspFYY1LzXILp WigeRFCKZOyZ1a7vjcU5p_EUE9vCzEh5_u.Xmdbn_lbxIQRAAQBet0hW1F8ZSwME.sPqC8IZE7Mw jeTNjQ7W5oBKSMlD4WeEr5i4iUna0PPDtS8QKsHbTrLa6KDOTFhHPHDgGw8eRM0h8D9zM Received: from sonic.gate.mail.ne1.yahoo.com by sonic305.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with HTTP; Tue, 24 Jul 2018 19:04:33 +0000 Received: from x4db648bd.dyn.telefonica.de (EHLO archlinux) ([77.182.72.189]) by smtp411.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (Oath Hermes SMTP Server) with ESMTPA ID 8a03cc9f8e409db66b72d91a2dbd864a for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2018 19:04:30 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 21:04:30 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: contribution to BSD Message-ID: <20180724210430.6d9b37bc@archlinux> In-Reply-To: <20180724103212.19cec96396dcd378d12f95c177b907fa.b8fe39246a.mailapi@email01.godaddy.com> References: <20180724103212.19cec96396dcd378d12f95c177b907fa.b8fe39246a.mailapi@email01.godaddy.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.16.0git213 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-arch-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 19:04:35 -0000 On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 10:32:12 -0700, jesse@jessewang.net wrote: >I just want to contribute my research results b(the C source codes) to >BSD so that other folks can use it, Do I have to install FreeBSD OS in >my computer first? Who should I contact to get the forms to apply for >a BSD license? You don't need a form to apply a FLOSS license, simply chose one and add a copy of the license to your code. Starting points might be https://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html https://www.freebsd.org/internal/software-license.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licenses https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ModifiedBSD https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#FreeBSD I don't know if you need to add the license as a comment on top of the header files, as well as providing a license file or if just one or the other is needed, but it shouldn't be hard to find out, when reading about the licenses. To add a FLOSS license to your code, you don't need to install a FLOSS operating system, but don't offend a license, assuming you code should include code of others.