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On 03/30/12 13:34, Alexis Ballier wrote: |
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> On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:34:26 -0400 |
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> Richard Yao <ryao@×××××××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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>> I wrote sys-freebsd/virtio-kmod (bug 410199) while studying |
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>> Gentoo/FreeBSD as part of an attempt to port gptzfsloader to Gentoo |
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>> Linux. naota wrote an improvement that would be useful to send |
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>> upstream. However, the GPL-2 license poses a problem according to |
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>> conversations that I had in #gentoo-dev. |
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> if he wrote the improvement, he can send it upstream under whatever |
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> license he wants; generally, it is implicit that a patch follows the |
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> same license as the code it applies to, esp. when the author himself |
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> agrees to share it with upstream. |
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The improvement is to the ebuild itself. It is a variable containing a |
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list of directories upon which the module's build system depends. |
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I spoke to naota and he doesn't have any problem sending this upstream, |
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so I sent an email to the FreeBSD maintainer offering him the improvement. |
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>> While I have asked naota for permission to upstream the line he wrote, |
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>> this poses a more general issue for collaboration, especially if I |
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>> port more kernel modules from FreeBSD Ports. |
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>> Would it be possible to relicense sys-freebsd/* under terms of the |
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>> BSD-2 license? |
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> what do you mean by 'relicense' ? for ebuilds, you'll have to ask |
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> permission to all contributors to this area, and, afaik, the foundation |
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> owns copyrights so it has a word to say too. |
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> if you mean the 'LICENSE' field of ebuilds, then this is not the right |
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> place to ask. |
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> A. |
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I am referring to the ebuilds themselves. Right now, all ebuilds in the |
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tree are GPL-2 licensed. This makes contributing FreeBSD-specific |
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improvements to FreeBSD Ports upstream difficult. |
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I want sys-freebsd/virtio-kmod to be BSD-2 licensed, but I do not expect |
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the version that enters the portage tree to be BSD-2 licensed unless |
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people clarify that it is okay to license ebuilds under something other |
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than the GPL-2. |
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