From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SDfjr-0007gB-NJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:35:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86189E0920; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:35:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D077BE086A for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:34:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (pc-121-219-86-200.cm.vtr.net [200.86.219.121]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: aballier) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D661A643ED for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:34:35 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:34:29 -0300 From: Alexis Ballier To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Relicensing sys-freebsd/* under the BSD-2 license Message-ID: <20120330143429.6e7a1856@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4F75E092.6020703@cs.stonybrook.edu> References: <4F75E092.6020703@cs.stonybrook.edu> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: aab75f55-b314-49ee-b18f-ce3b08d8c8f3 X-Archives-Hash: 36b6e3818951b878b4452108430beddb On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:34:26 -0400 Richard Yao 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.