On 03/30/12 13:52, Richard Yao wrote: > 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.
To clarify, I would like the upstream developers to consider improvements in Gentoo/FreeBSD for inclusion to make collaboration easier. I view the GPL-2 to be an issue, particularly because I had to ask naota for permission to contribute his improvement to an ebuild I wrote to the upstream developers. I do not expect the upstream maintainers to familiarize themselves with the intricacies of what they can take and what they cannot take, so I would prefer to relicense all ebuilds in sys-freebsd/* under the terms of the BSD-2 license. It is much easier to say to the upstream developers that everything in portage's sys-freebsd/* category is available to them under the license that they use than it is expect them to learn a list of rules.
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