Subject: Re: copyright questions
To: Jim Wise <jimw@numenor.turner.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 06/13/1997 20:31:14
On Fri, 13 Jun 1997 21:06:59 -0400 (EDT) 
 Jim Wise <jimw@numenor.turner.com> wrote:

 > > > And if Chris wanted to submit GPL'ed code?
 > > 
 > > Chris doesn't want to submit GPL'd code, so this is a meaningless
 > > question.
 > 
 > Not really.  The point is that there are some licensing terms which
 > would not be appropriate for inclusion in the NetBSD tree.  Given this
 > fact, it seems proper to have an open discussion of the issues involved
 > before such a drastically changed license _is_ included in the tree.

Ok, to answer this... If Chris wanted to contribute code that was GPL'd,
it wouldn't go into the tree... unless it was changes to things in the
tree that are already GPL'd (e.g. toolchain modifications).

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