Hi,
I'm a long term fan of FreeBSD. I haven't used it in years (since 4.7 to be exact) but I hope this will change in the very near future. I have learned so much in the past years that I think it's time to become active and help the open source community, that includes FreeBSD. I'm more familiar with the Linux architecture but I want to dig deeper into FreeBSD as well. I hope to contribute one day in the form of patches, bug fixes and perhaps even develop something.
What I would like to know is whether it's possible to release software using FreeBSD code or software made for FreeBSD (read: LKM) as GPL and not BSD? Sorry if this is a stupid question but I don't understand how legal stuff works. Basically what I'm asking is if I make a kernel module for FreeBSD, can I release it using a GPL license instead of a BSD license?
Thanks,
Mark
I'm a long term fan of FreeBSD. I haven't used it in years (since 4.7 to be exact) but I hope this will change in the very near future. I have learned so much in the past years that I think it's time to become active and help the open source community, that includes FreeBSD. I'm more familiar with the Linux architecture but I want to dig deeper into FreeBSD as well. I hope to contribute one day in the form of patches, bug fixes and perhaps even develop something.
What I would like to know is whether it's possible to release software using FreeBSD code or software made for FreeBSD (read: LKM) as GPL and not BSD? Sorry if this is a stupid question but I don't understand how legal stuff works. Basically what I'm asking is if I make a kernel module for FreeBSD, can I release it using a GPL license instead of a BSD license?
Thanks,
Mark