On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Russell Haley <russ.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
I'm trying to perform due diligence because I want to throw some time into this. Avoiding GPL and other encumbering licenses is important to me. I had to know myself so I made this list of licenses: https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang - Microsoft https://github.com/dotnet/cli - https://www.microsoft.com/net/dotnet_library_license.htm https://github.com/dotnet/source-build - MIT https://github.com/dotnet/core-setup - MIT https://github.com/dotnet/corefx - MIT https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr - MIT https://github.com/dotnet/sdk - MIT https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-docker - MIT https://github.com/dotnet/standard - MIT https://github.com/dotnet/sdk - MIT https://github.com/dotnet/netcorecli-fsc - MIT https://github.com/nuget/home - A2 https://github.com/aspnet/home - A2 https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn - A2 https://github.com/aspnet/Docs - CC https://github.com/dotnet/docs - CC 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"
