Hey Marcin, So I just read the Contribution License Agreement and I didn't see anything untoward.
https://cla2.dotnetfoundation.org/cladoc/net-foundation-contribution-license-agreement.pdf Just remember all these projects are MIT, Apache 2 or CC license. I think bringing this code into FreeBSD is a bonkers good idea. (Kaboom! lolz). Especially if you think about how much proprietary code is out there on Windows that people will want to protect. A FreeNAS style management console would make FreeBSD a particularly attractive offer over GPL licensed OSes for companies to create appliance style systems (physical or virtual, a-la FreeNAS). Jails become yet another great way to distribute proprietary code. Sony PS 3&4, NetApp and now Nintendo Switch are all great examples of what you can do with FreeBSD in a proprietary system. Dot Net Core also opens up Arm based systems on FreeBSD in some ways because it's specifically designed do be modular. I don't think Mono has built on Arm for a long time and the performance of Mono has been a problem of note. Russ On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Russell Haley <russ.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry for the top post, > > Marcin, can you expand on your thoughts about the contributor license? This > has been one of the concerns of mine (part of the pedanticism). I didn't get > a chance to read the doc itself yet. > > Russ > > Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Virgin Mobile network. > Original Message > From: Marcin Cieslak > Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2017 1:13 AM > To: Russell Haley > Cc: David Naylor; Geoffrey Huntley; Freebsd-mono; > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; freebsd-po...@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: DotNet Core on FreeBSD > > On Sun, 10 Sep 2017, Russell Haley wrote: > >> Hey guys, >> >> I am talking to Karel and Tomas at Microsoft's DotNet Core Team about >> putting together a "proposal" for community involvement, which will be >> followed by more information on this list. Most of the talk has been >> me blowing air and being pedantic about nothing (I get excited and >> type alot). > > I was tinkering around FreeBSD support when dotnet core was first published. > Stack unwinding for exceptions was very hacky at the time, and there were > some unnecessary discussions about how to implement some FreeBSD sepecific > sysctl's. I got a bit frustrated with that (a whole porting effort is about > coercing Unix to offer part of Win32 APIs). > > It was somewhat running on FreeBSD natively back then, haven't checked > recently. > > I have also decided not to sign their bad contributor agreement > and some of the sysctl code I decided to put in mono instead :) > > Marcin > saper on github _______________________________________________ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
