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On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Richard Yao <ryao@...> wrote:
> On 03/30/12 14:47, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> I fail to understand what the license of the ebuild has to do with the
>> license of the package itself.
>
> It has nothing to do with the license of the package. That is completely
> separate. This has to do with the license of the ebuild itself.
>
> FreeBSD Ports inspired Daniel Robbins to create Portage. The issue that
> is our ability to share FreeBSD-specific improvements between ebuilds in
> portage and Makefiles in FreeBSD ports.
>
> The issues that are similar for both. Collaboration on FreeBSD-specific
> things in sys-freebsd/* would make life easier for both portage ebuild
> maintainers and FreeBSD port maintainers.
>
I doubt you can get the content "re-licensed" under a different
license. You may be able to convince folks to add an additional
license (|| (GPL-2 BSD-2)). That way Gentoo keeps its GPL-2 and
freebsd can have the code as BSD-2.
-A
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