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 1SDg2Z-00026L-HL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:55:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C28A8E0998; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:54:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from edge2.cs.stonybrook.edu (edge2.cs.stonybrook.edu [130.245.9.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC001E04BA for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:54:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from HUBCAS1.cs.stonybrook.edu (130.245.9.206) by edge2.cs.stonybrook.edu (130.245.9.211) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.355.2; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:55:10 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (72.89.250.133) by hubcas1.cs.stonybrook.edu (130.245.9.212) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.323.3; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:54:07 -0400 Message-ID: <4F75F2D2.9030308@cs.stonybrook.edu> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:52:18 -0400 From: Richard Yao User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120301 Thunderbird/10.0.1 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 To: CC: Alexis Ballier Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Relicensing sys-freebsd/* under the BSD-2 license References: <4F75E092.6020703@cs.stonybrook.edu> <20120330143429.6e7a1856@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20120330143429.6e7a1856@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig3CE24CC11ED9B032B8013AF0" X-Originating-IP: [72.89.250.133] X-Archives-Salt: f3c5d7a8-2356-4a5f-a792-823156be87f7 X-Archives-Hash: 642c3d26a5c0d729c7e0a39eb35b435c --------------enig3CE24CC11ED9B032B8013AF0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 03/30/12 13:34, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:34:26 -0400 > Richard Yao wrote: >=20 >> 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. >> >=20 > 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. The improvement is to the ebuild itself. It is a variable containing a list of directories upon which the module's build system depends. I spoke to naota and he doesn't have any problem sending this upstream, so I sent an email to the FreeBSD maintainer offering him the improvement= =2E >> 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? >> >=20 > 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. >=20 > A. >=20 I am referring to the ebuilds themselves. Right now, all ebuilds in the tree are GPL-2 licensed. This makes contributing FreeBSD-specific improvements to FreeBSD Ports upstream difficult. I want sys-freebsd/virtio-kmod to be BSD-2 licensed, but I do not expect the version that enters the portage tree to be BSD-2 licensed unless people clarify that it is okay to license ebuilds under something other than the GPL-2. --------------enig3CE24CC11ED9B032B8013AF0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJPdfLZAAoJELFAT5FmjZuEwY4QAI//avNP/qaIXwhJqlqort3B 7xnZNcCLSS1xomEQoMHRh1Q/4LJrj353mIXxphJ934QYkwmEaSNru3iccnRXYxHR bbkgr2OqBUU+NJmYjk2pDoLaoLyDk2HqTR1QL/sNmkN0F7mQtW3rzgztlijQ3ssq LZ8PgJZFk+uRmobGlEEIHFBOW2wTkh28BT2wNGg10MfjnTg2Iippp9UIBQiM4YKI ctBQHffu4vC5WUDbVXitrJakdBWufFoGusjirs3r72It/FT5Q3+hpPRsZDuLAi28 6yn5SmvudT++fFZlgtpzPXwORArk3jTFwk2blwZuDjTFU6vddejqiJR3LNs+p1o4 dirW8FMbk3iExRGHvulN0YUN6LOFdUNCaSdpqDvDPm+kDfibXAvfbGTZtyXsPgg6 SLn5RswjHV+v8hw8oIfR99Xxj0AYPqdmVN02r6WkN26EYJlSQUjnLaQ1cufY7LDb Tel1AnfwNUQvJqOu6WqKvyaCMhtx1gfNjeFHNd36dA9yLkyQA4ZXagkpVRj/8sbu /+lttyMNlRoWAUgI7ndBvyU7UuIPkYjZf/LVqL7/8Uz3PeLivYIwIA1XLdMT1Gv8 PsJ0xyS+QDG+cc3LKmZX1WHcsPfmnylASXXUFg3Ti8BfOwmKu/hgm7PA1OrK6fjV Toxz4qiPGwMYogVI23kT =n5y3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig3CE24CC11ED9B032B8013AF0--