On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 12:29 PM Ed Maste <ema...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 at 11:56, Rick Macklem <rmack...@uoguelph.ca> wrote: > > > > Did they stick APSLs on the files? (If so, I think it could still be ok, > since the APSL > > is a lot like the CDDL. However, I'm not sure if the APSL has ever been > blessed > > by FreeBSD as of yet?) > > I had a quick look at the Illumos kernel files and it appears each > file is licensed under only one of 4-clause BSD, APSL, or CDDL, > depending on where it originated. > > Files from Boris Popov's original FreeBSD implementation have the > 4-clause BSD license, followed by something like: > /* > * Copyright (c) 2008, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights > reserved. > * Portions Copyright (C) 2001 - 2013 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. > * Copyright 2018 Nexenta Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. > */ > > There are 28 BSD-licensed kernel files, 5 APSL, and 13 CDDL. I think > that having an smbfs kernel module in the tree using a combination of > those licenses is fine. (This isn't on behalf of core@ and of course > due diligence needs to be done, but from a high level it seems > reasonable.) >
Yea, I took a quick look and came to a similar conclusion: this code base is likely fine for inclusion from a license perspective, but would take some doing to get it working on FreeBSD robustly for all the reasons that Rick delved into far better than I can... Warner
