license change policy for patches added for ports?

[Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 12:56:24 -0600 (CST)
"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote:

> I am curious about if FreeBSD has a policy on licenses for patches
> added to ports?
> 
> I am looking through the FreeBSD Porter's handbook and don't see
> anything mentioned yet. 
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/slow-patch.html 
> doesn't mention licensing.
> 
> The port where I have heard complaints about is the added copyright to
> ports/audio/cdparanoia
> 
> Any comments? Any policy?
> 
> One idea would be that anything added to FreeBSD ports files patches
> should need to be under the same original license. But I understand
> there could be exceptions.

One of the PR guides[lines] mention that unless otherwise specified
everything submitted is under BSD licence.

But yeh, given the mad word we're living in maybe we should make this
more visible.

-- 
IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
  "Intellectual Property" is   nowhere near as valuable   as "Intellect"

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