barry bouwsma wrote: > --- On Sun, 9/14/08, Steven Toth <stoth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> is that the BSD folks can't port the GPL license into BSD because it's >> not compatible. > > I don't want to see any religious war here (trimmed to dvb > list), but... > > There is GPL code distributed as part of *BSD sources, > as you can see by reading the licensing in, for example, > $ ls /lost+found/CVSUP/BSD/FreeBSD.cvs/src/sys/gnu/dev/sound/pci/ > Attic emu10k1-alsa.h,v maestro3_reg.h,v p17v-alsa.h,v > csaimg.h,v maestro3_dsp.h,v p16v-alsa.h,v Interesting. > > >> I owe it to myself to spend somehime reading the BSD licencing. Maybe >> the GPL is compatible with BSD. > > It all depends on the intended use -- whether for optional > kernel components as above. In the distributions, though, > it's kept separated. > > It's also possible to dual-licence source, and I see a good > number of such files in NetBSD under, as an example, > /lost+found/CVSUP/BSD/NetBSD.cvs/src/sys/dev/ic/ I'm be quite happy to grant a second license on my work the the BSD guys, as the copyright owner I can do that. The legal stuff gets messy quickly and I don't claim to understand all of it. I'm an opensource developer, I chose to work on Linux because it's the biggest movement. I have no objections to any other projects, in fact I welcome them. > > > There will be plenty of misinformation and FUD about which > licensing is better, and I don't want to hear any more such. > Or debates. Or evangelism. Or anything. Agreed. > > The different BSDen will handle GPLed code differently. > > (By the way, it is possible to completely build NetBSD from > within Linux, though the DVB code hasn't been merged as of > this morning my time, if someone with *BSD familiarity here > wants to think about considering maybe playing with it later > sometime, perhaps, maybe) The issue would be your support community. If you're working on linux then people here will help, if our working on something else and asking for help here - then people will probably be trying to fix linux first, so responses to questions may not arrive, or be slow coming. Still, better TV support in BSD is good news. - Steve _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
