svn commit: r45153 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing

Eitan Adler eadler at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jun 29 07:58:39 UTC 2014


Author: eadler
Date: Sun Jun 29 07:58:38 2014
New Revision: 45153
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45153

Log:
  There is an ongoing effort to replace GPL portions of FreeBSD with free
  software alternatives.  The statement that GPL is acceptable is no
  longer correct.
  
  The surrounding documentation is actually more strict than it should be
  (for example, we accept the CDDL license).  However, this is not in the
  scope of this change.

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 07:51:30 2014	(r45152)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.xml	Sun Jun 29 07:58:38 2014	(r45153)
@@ -411,30 +411,6 @@
 	    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


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