Direct contributors to the licensing policy page instead of incorrectly
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someone to host the changes for you.</para>
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<para>When working with large amounts of code, the touchy
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subject of copyrights also invariably comes up. Acceptable
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copyrights for code included in FreeBSD are:</para>
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>The BSD copyright<indexterm><primary>BSD
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copyright</primary></indexterm>. This copyright is most
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preferred due to its <quote>no strings attached</quote>
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nature and general attractiveness to commercial
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enterprises. Far from discouraging such commercial use,
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the FreeBSD Project actively encourages such participation
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by commercial interests who might eventually be inclined
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to invest something of their own into FreeBSD.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<indexterm>
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<primary>GPL</primary>
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<see>GNU General Public License</see>
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</indexterm>
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<indexterm>
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<primary>GNU General Public License</primary>
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</indexterm>
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The GNU General Public License, or <quote>GPL</quote>.
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This license is not quite as popular with us due to the
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amount of extra effort demanded of anyone using the code
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for commercial purposes, but given the sheer quantity of
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GPL'd code we currently require (compiler, assembler, text
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formatter, etc) it would be silly to refuse additional
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contributions under this license. Code under the GPL also
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goes into a different part of the tree, that being
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<filename>/sys/gnu</filename> or
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<filename>/usr/src/gnu</filename>, and
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is therefore easily identifiable to anyone for whom the
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GPL presents a problem.</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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<para>Contributions coming under any other type of copyright
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must be carefully reviewed before their inclusion into FreeBSD
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will be considered. Contributions for which particularly
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restrictive commercial copyrights apply are generally
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rejected, though the authors are always encouraged to make
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such changes available through their own channels.</para>
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<para>To place a <quote>BSD-style</quote> copyright on your
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work, include the following text at the very beginning of
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every source code file you wish to protect, replacing the text
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between the <literal>%%</literal> with the appropriate
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information:</para>
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<programlisting>Copyright (c) %%proper_years_here%%
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%%your_name_here%%, %%your_state%% %%your_zip%%.
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All rights reserved.
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Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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are met:
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1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer as
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the first lines of this file unmodified.
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2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY %%your_name_here%% ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
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IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
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OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
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IN NO EVENT SHALL %%your_name_here%% BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
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INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
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NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
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DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
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THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
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(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
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THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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$&os;$</programlisting>
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<para>For your convenience, a copy of this text can be found in
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<filename>/usr/share/examples/etc/bsd-style-copyright</filename>.</para>
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subject of copyrights also invariably comes up. &os;
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prefers free software licenses such as BSD or ISC.
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Copyleft licenses such as GPLv2 are sometimes permitted. The
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complete listing can be found on the <link
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xlink:href="&url.base;/internal/software-license.html">core team
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licensing policy</link> page.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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