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 <gentoo-dev+bounces-50773-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1SDgPK-0004pX-0G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:18:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7BA8E0B01; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:18:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from edge2.cs.stonybrook.edu (edge2.cs.stonybrook.edu [130.245.9.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B33FE0BE4 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:17:32 +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 14:18:34 -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 14:17:31 -0400 Message-ID: <4F75F852.3000408@cs.stonybrook.edu> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:15:46 -0400 From: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120301 Thunderbird/10.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> CC: Jon Portnoy <avenj@eris.oppresses.us> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Relicensing sys-freebsd/* under the BSD-2 license References: <4F75E092.6020703@cs.stonybrook.edu> <20120330143429.6e7a1856@gentoo.org> <4F75F2D2.9030308@cs.stonybrook.edu> <20120330180022.GA11396@eris.oppresses.us> In-Reply-To: <20120330180022.GA11396@eris.oppresses.us> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig9BBD227B97435A8B29A4D7FE" X-Originating-IP: [72.89.250.133] X-Archives-Salt: 061edcdc-e0df-4dfc-a9bf-f6ff364fb7cc X-Archives-Hash: 9340ad002161708077d146bffc8fbda6 --------------enig9BBD227B97435A8B29A4D7FE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 03/30/12 14:00, Jon Portnoy wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 01:52:18PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote: >> >> 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 improvem= ent. >> >=20 > I would argue that a trivial change like that is unlikely to be substan= tial=20 > enough to constitute a copyrightable work at all. >=20 I brought this to the list specifically because the line between a work being trivial or not is poorly defined. I would prefer something more concrete for the purpose of enabling collaboration with FreeBSD upstream.= --------------enig9BBD227B97435A8B29A4D7FE 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/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJPdfhVAAoJELFAT5FmjZuE2hoQAKioHu4OmPSofXe1ubdoJU09 8MudA9SAcfz0zjicP5Tv0YySsPB4MRQD0E33e9XHMv5dElnwe/5l9OpBBnbXHooR gjm6GK5LpW5CRgRLPun5o1st+tlP6EceWU0dIBjMjMIchzA/glDDtIa432wNNNxA 6JRYAZIbIRyMOGt0tVHcNKJPSYKSDyHBTdfxYwNCP3XIIyK4V/ItF6xU98jKkFfI 1uyOVgO8taN4hdEzdaFWZ6qGipUwxJO8X1LBoHwHSdhMRXTFAQDzN6lFHuvlRa2C vF60eiafPh4eWa3bnXGuuBCXCkBG+42g6bqSJARtEtWIFCOK2QbvtRRnK7lpmdcm EIgWfc32cueCQsOmM9POR9+VErdrausO7C9Z0wq8yu4ugyn8nPhKNiKzI3MN9aum +gJw6ZDHnNZZD5gItcZ9TP4jistICr6qXRVGwQaudAFgVlQiwqIY5RPZahYgcL4c 4yE5E3ReoYsEWvLv3UeFUUr8NHiBISgrBVI6lYI9SsLgVZwqpb1FuO5lTAH1XM4r Hplf+o5/ieT/ItFgxFsC4Ws6r+I3EskUsw+1bO6pZxF3GqegqXuRIM1/m2yGv+H/ j4EWbMCagrB8C53f0P1we9qct4JgLXAOZRnXYkMKsljKMInYx4lDV+mypF8mV1jP ZJ5JVOgH8XttzNIeCdrZ =kLWY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig9BBD227B97435A8B29A4D7FE--