ASL 2.0 based software contribution to FreeBSD code base

[Vincent Hoffman]

Saifi Khan wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Is Apache Software License (ASL) 2.0 based software contributions
> accepted in FreeBSD code base ?
>
> Specific case to consider would be:
>  a. device driver code released under ASL 2.0
>  b. code contributed to kernel (eg. scheduler implementation) under ASL 2.0
>  c. code contributed to userland (eg. new implementation of ctags) under ASL 2.0
>
> Can some of the experienced members share how things work within the
> context of FreeBSD project ?
>
>   
I was going to answer with
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/pref-license.html
however in a recent discussion on the -current list
(http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=163526+0+current/freebsd-current)
Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org> said
"This file is outdated.  While this remains our prefered license, the
current
OpenBSD prefered license is the ISC licesed which is allowed by the license
policy we published to developers last year.  We should probably replace
this
page with that policy."

I'd ask for a copy of the current policy on freebsd-current@ if you dont
get any answers here.



Vince