KDTRACE is gone?
Stanislaw Halik
sthalik at tehran.lain.pl
Thu Nov 23 13:37:05 PST 2006
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006, John Birrell wrote:
>> 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.
> FreeBSD's policy is to ship a GENERIC kernel which is entirely BSD
> licensed. Kernel modules and other kernel options can include other
> licenses, but the options enabled in GENERIC must be BSD licensed.
Why isn't importing it as a non-default option acceptable? I believe a
lot of users would be happy to include it in their custom kernels.
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