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Date:      Thu, 17 Apr 2014 15:00:00 +0200
From:      =?iso-8859-2?Q?Edward_Tomasz_Napiera=B3a?= <trasz@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Abhishek Gupta (LIS) <abgupta@microsoft.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Duplicating code from NetBSD
Message-ID:  <7A221B2C-6439-46E7-8343-51945B5626A7@FreeBSD.org>
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Wiadomo=B6=E6 napisana przez Abhishek Gupta (LIS) w dniu 17 kwi 2014, o =
godz. 03:01:
> Hi folks,
>=20
> Newbie question so please excuse the naivety. If someone were to copy =
a few functions from NetBSD in to their FreeBSD kernel mode drivers then =
is it still possible to submit the code in to the FreeBSD tree under the =
FreeBSD license? If not then would the community accept the copied code =
cleanly separated out in a file and licensed under the NetBSD license? =
Please let me know if there is an acceptable procedure to do this or if =
this is a complete NONO.

It all depends on the license.  If the code is licensed under standard =
BSD
license, then it's perfectly ok to commit it to FreeBSD.  In fact, a lot =
of things
got ported from NetBSD, just grep for it in sources.




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