On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:34:26 -0400 Richard Yao <r...@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.
