KDTRACE is gone?
Wilko Bulte
wb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Wed Nov 22 12:37:38 PST 2006
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 12:24:00PM -0800, freebsd at bitfreak.org wrote..
> John Birrell wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 09:09:21PM -0800, Cai, Quanqing wrote:
> >>Today when I tried to compile my customized kernel, I run "config"
> >>command and got this: unknown option "KDTRACE".
> >>
> >>Who can tell me what's going on?
> >
> >The KDTRACE option can't work the way I intended it to because
> >of licensing restrictions.
>
> Which restrictions do you see preventing the distribution of a
> DTRACE-enabled GENERIC kernel binary? I would refer you to sections
> 3.1, 3.4 and 3.5 of the license[1], which state:
>
> - the CDDL is mandatory on the source code distribution;
> - the original copyright notice for the original work must be displayed;
> - binary distributions of CDDL-licensed software may be relicensed;
>
> The requirement for the last is that the new license not conflict with
> the CDDL. The CDDL doesn't otherwise restrict use, modification or
> distribution and includes the ability to sublicense the original code as
> well as and derived works.
>
> Someone please point out the conflict. I don't see one.
The project's policy is to ship default kernels only with components
that are BSD-licensed. The CDDL is not the BSD license, there are
things in there like patent clauses etc.
--
Wilko Bulte wilko at FreeBSD.org
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