Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 21:59:27 -0700 From: Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> To: Marcin Cieslak <saper@saper.info> Cc: David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com>, Geoffrey Huntley <ghuntley@ghuntley.com>, Freebsd-mono <freebsd-mono@freebsd.org>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DotNet Core on FreeBSD Message-ID: <CABx9NuTxcgDfe8oApu%2BsChN3wGfYHC_RNBeakxoh=7sK6_1O=g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20170910155228.6545490.82502.31658@gmail.com> References: <CABx9NuQVGCnn32pNz2Opbnua8wwuuYjTDJyq3qO0iF%2BkiGfVBg@mail.gmail.com> <nycvar.OFS.7.76.6.1709100805500.3008@z.fncre.vasb> <20170910155228.6545490.82502.31658@gmail.com>
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Hey Marcin, So I just read the Contribution License Agreement and I didn't see anything untoward. https://cla2.dotnetfoundation.org/cladoc/net-foundation-contribution-licens= e-agreement.pdf Just remember all these projects are MIT, Apache 2 or CC license. I think bringing this code into FreeBSD is a bonkers good idea. (Kaboom! lolz). Especially if you think about how much proprietary code is out there on Windows that people will want to protect. A FreeNAS style management console would make FreeBSD a particularly attractive offer over GPL licensed OSes for companies to create appliance style systems (physical or virtual, a-la FreeNAS). Jails become yet another great way to distribute proprietary code. Sony PS 3&4, NetApp and now Nintendo Switch are all great examples of what you can do with FreeBSD in a proprietary system. Dot Net Core also opens up Arm based systems on FreeBSD in some ways because it's specifically designed do be modular. I don't think Mono has built on Arm for a long time and the performance of Mono has been a problem of note. Russ On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> wrote= : > Sorry for the top post, > > Marcin, can you expand on your thoughts about the contributor license? Th= is has been one of the concerns of mine=E2=80=8E (part of the pedanticism).= I didn't get a chance to read the doc itself yet. > > Russ > > Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Virgin Mobile network. > Original Message > From: Marcin Cieslak > Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2017 1:13 AM > To: Russell Haley > Cc: David Naylor; Geoffrey Huntley; Freebsd-mono; freebsd-advocacy@freebs= d.org; freebsd-ports@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: DotNet Core on FreeBSD > > On Sun, 10 Sep 2017, Russell Haley wrote: > >> Hey guys, >> >> I am talking to Karel and Tomas at Microsoft's DotNet Core Team about >> putting together a "proposal" for community involvement, which will be >> followed by more information on this list. Most of the talk has been >> me blowing air and being pedantic about nothing (I get excited and >> type alot). > > I was tinkering around FreeBSD support when dotnet core was first publish= ed. > Stack unwinding for exceptions was very hacky at the time, and there were > some unnecessary discussions about how to implement some FreeBSD sepecifi= c > sysctl's. I got a bit frustrated with that (a whole porting effort is abo= ut > coercing Unix to offer part of Win32 APIs). > > It was somewhat running on FreeBSD natively back then, haven't checked > recently. > > I have also decided not to sign their bad contributor agreement > and some of the sysctl code I decided to put in mono instead :) > > Marcin > saper on github
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