Re: [gentoo-dev] Relicensing sys-freebsd/* under the BSD-2 license

[Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:34:26 -0400
Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu> wrote:

> I wrote sys-freebsd/virtio-kmod (bug 410199) while studying
> Gentoo/FreeBSD as part of an attempt to port gptzfsloader to Gentoo
> Linux. naota wrote an improvement that would be useful to send
> upstream. However, the GPL-2 license poses a problem according to
> conversations that I had in #gentoo-dev.
> 

if he wrote the improvement, he can send it upstream under whatever
license he wants; generally, it is implicit that a patch follows the
same license as the code it applies to, esp. when the author himself
agrees to share it with upstream.

> While I have asked naota for permission to upstream the line he wrote,
> this poses a more general issue for collaboration, especially if I
> port more kernel modules from FreeBSD Ports.
> 
> Would it be possible to relicense sys-freebsd/* under terms of the
> BSD-2 license?
> 

what do you mean by 'relicense' ? for ebuilds, you'll have to ask
permission to all contributors to this area, and, afaik, the foundation
owns copyrights so it has a word to say too.
if you mean the 'LICENSE' field of ebuilds, then this is not the right
place to ask.

A.