ASL 2.0 based software contribution to FreeBSD code base

[Saifi Khan]

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Robert Watson wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Saifi Khan wrote:
> 
> > Is Apache Software License (ASL) 2.0 based software contributions accepted
> > in FreeBSD code base ?
> >
> 
> So in short: we would heavily discourage code being submitted under non-BSD
> licenses on the basis that our goal is to produce a BSD-licensed system,
> license proliferation has real-world overhead especially in terms of
> constrained developer and lawyer time, makes it harder for FreeBSD end-users
> to understand their rights and whether or not they can combine components, and
> when other licenses are used they require very special handling.
> 
> Robert N M Watson
> Computer Laboratory
> University of Cambridge
> 

Hi Robert:

Appreciate the time you took to reply to my queries.

Your reply clarified the FreeBSD 'perspective' 
and the FreeBSD 'imperative'.


thanks
Saifi.