[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on FreeBSD 4.9?

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On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 07:34:20AM -0500, Troy Settle wrote:
> 
> I'm not completely conversant on how GPL software can be committed to
> the kernel, but I believe it can be done under the contrib/ directory.
> 

I think the *BSD kernel device drivers should be BSD
licensed. BSD and Linux device drivers are different
enough that this can probably be done without re-using
code, so shouldn't be a big problem. There is also
precedent with EXT2FS support for GPL drivers being
included (in /usr/src/sys/gnu on FreeBSD), but it will
be much easier if the drivers are BSD licensed.

As well, once drivers exist for one BSD, porting them
to the others will be *much* easier.

-w
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