On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 07:39:27AM +0100, Volker wrote: > While working through the PR backlog, I found two PRs filed containing > source code for two tools (decomment, relpath) under the Apple Public > Source License (APSL). > > I think these tools aren't that bad but before pinging any committer > with that, I thought I might throw the question on the table: What > about importing code under the APSL license? Has there been any > consensus in the past about that license? > > I'm not a lawyer but the license seems to be reasonable suited for the > BSD projects. > > PRs in question: bin/67307 bin/67308
The quotes on the followup are essentially correct except that explicit approval is required by core to add new Non-BSD-Licensed code and that there would need to be a mechanism to not build them as part of buildworld to allow environments that do not want to deal with the APSL to avoid it similar to GPL or CDDL code. -- Brooks
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