On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Richard Yao <r...@cs.stonybrook.edu> wrote: > On 03/30/12 14:47, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> I fail to understand what the license of the ebuild has to do with the >> license of the package itself. > > It has nothing to do with the license of the package. That is completely > separate. This has to do with the license of the ebuild itself. > > FreeBSD Ports inspired Daniel Robbins to create Portage. The issue that > is our ability to share FreeBSD-specific improvements between ebuilds in > portage and Makefiles in FreeBSD ports. > > The issues that are similar for both. Collaboration on FreeBSD-specific > things in sys-freebsd/* would make life easier for both portage ebuild > maintainers and FreeBSD port maintainers. >
I doubt you can get the content "re-licensed" under a different license. You may be able to convince folks to add an additional license (|| (GPL-2 BSD-2)). That way Gentoo keeps its GPL-2 and freebsd can have the code as BSD-2. -A
