svn commit: r45163 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing

[Eitan Adler]

Author: eadler
Date: Sun Jun 29 17:19:32 2014
New Revision: 45163
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45163

Log:
  This section should be replaced by a pointer to an official statement by core.
  
  Requested by:	imp

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.xml	Sun Jun 29 14:50:36 2014	(r45162)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.xml	Sun Jun 29 17:19:32 2014	(r45163)
@@ -411,6 +411,30 @@
 	    by commercial interests who might eventually be inclined
 	    to invest something of their own into FreeBSD.</para>
 	</listitem>
+
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>
+	    <indexterm>
+	      <primary>GPL</primary>
+	      <see>GNU General Public License</see>
+	    </indexterm>
+
+	    <indexterm>
+	      <primary>GNU General Public License</primary>
+	    </indexterm>
+	    The GNU General Public License, or <quote>GPL</quote>.
+	    This license is not quite as popular with us due to the
+	    amount of extra effort demanded of anyone using the code
+	    for commercial purposes, but given the sheer quantity of
+	    GPL'd code we currently require (compiler, assembler, text
+	    formatter, etc) it would be silly to refuse additional
+	    contributions under this license.  Code under the GPL also
+	    goes into a different part of the tree, that being
+	    <filename>/sys/gnu</filename> or
+	    <filename>/usr/src/gnu</filename>, and
+	    is therefore easily identifiable to anyone for whom the
+	    GPL presents a problem.</para>
+	</listitem>
       </orderedlist>
 
       <para>Contributions coming under any other type of copyright