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Donnie Berkholz posted <430947E3.1000201@g.o>, excerpted below, on |
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Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:34:59 -0700: |
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> Ricardo Loureiro wrote: |
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> | The final result of the project will be released to the community |
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> | (GPL or BSD, still need to think), so I'd love to ear from users |
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> | dealing with this kind of scenario, question, comments, whatever you |
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> | think I should focus on. Oh, a name for the project would be welcome |
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> | =) |
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> I strongly encourage you to release it under the same license as Portage |
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> is (GPL-2), so parts (or all) of it could be incorporated into Gentoo. |
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If I'm not mistaken (and I admit I could be, IANAL), BSD licensed |
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material, because the BSD license is a more permissive license with |
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generally few conditions, can be co-mingled in a GPL (2) project without |
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issue, and with the whole thing continuing to be GPL (2) licensed. I'm |
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not sure whether BSD markers must remain attached or not. In fact, I |
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believe it's fairly common for the kernel, for instance, to borrow BSD |
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code, and that said borrowed code doesn't have to be treated specially at |
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all (save for the traditional ACK of original source, but that's only |
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responsible origin tracing, certainly within the context of the SCOs of |
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the world). |
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Of course, the other possibility, if the permissiveness of BSD is desired, |
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would be a dual-license BSD/GPL. That clears up any possible conflicts |
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directly and immediately. OTOH, with portage itself already GPL2 |
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licensed, I'm not sure I see much point in BSD licensing any portage |
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dependent new code, in any case, since it's dependent on GPL2 code anyway. |
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Still, the dual license certainly can't harm, and would likely be my |
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choice if I wanted the BSD permissiveness to apply to my code, under the |
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circumstances. (FWIW, I prefer GPL, so there's no question that's how I'd |
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license it if it were me, but it's not, so that doesn't count.) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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