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