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mit/31-May-2020-339,462247,621

public-domain/06-Sep-2014-433,014283,958

realtek/10-Jul-2018-7659

zlib/20-Jan-2014-4,9543,453

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README

1$NetBSD: README,v 1.19 2023/08/15 22:02:36 christos Exp $
2
3Organization of Sources:
4
5This directory hierarchy is using an organization that separates
6source for programs that we have obtained from external third
7parties (where NetBSD is not the primary maintainer) from the
8system source.
9
10The hierarchy is grouped by license, and then package per license,
11and is organized as follows:
12
13          external/
14
15              Makefile
16                              Descend into the license sub-directories.
17
18              <license>/
19                              Per-license sub-directories.
20
21                    Makefile
22                              Descend into the package sub-directories.
23
24                    <package>/
25                              Per-package sub-directories.
26
27                        Makefile
28                              Build the package.
29
30                        dist/
31                              The third-party source for a given package.
32
33                        bin/
34                        lib/
35                        sbin/
36                              BSD makefiles "reach over" from these into
37                              "../dist/".
38
39This arrangement allows for packages to be easily disabled or
40excised as necessary, either on a per-license or per-package basis.
41
42The licenses currently used are:
43
44          apache2             Apache 2.0 license.
45                              http://www.opensource.org/licenses/apache2.0.php
46
47          atheros             Atheros License.
48
49          broadcom  Broadcom licenses for rpi firmware and bfwm. See
50                              */dist/LICENSE.broadcom*
51
52          bsd                 BSD (or equivalent) licensed software, possibly with
53                              the "advertising clause".
54                              http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
55
56          cddl                Common Development and Distribution License (the sun
57                              license which is based on the Mozilla Public License
58                              version 1.1).
59                              http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cddl1.php
60
61          gpl2                GNU Public License, version 2 (or earlier).
62                              http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.php
63
64          gpl3                GNU Public License, version 3.
65                              http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
66
67          historical          Lucent's old license:
68                              http://www.opensource.org/licenses/historical.php
69
70          ibm-public          IBM's public license:
71                              http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ibmpl.php
72
73          intel-fw-eula       Intel firmware license with redistribution
74                              restricted to OEM.
75
76          intel-fw-public     Intel firmware license permitting redistribution with
77                              terms similar to BSD licensed software.
78
79          intel-public        Intel license permitting redistribution with
80                              terms similar to BSD licensed software.
81
82          lgpl2               GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2 (or earlier).
83                              https://opensource.org/license/lgpl-2-1/
84
85          lgpl3               GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 (or earlier).
86                              https://opensource.org/license/lgpl-3-0/
87
88          mit                 MIT (X11) style license.
89                              http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
90
91          mpl                 Mozilla Public license.
92                              https://opensource.org/licenses/MPL-2.0
93
94          nvidia-firmware     NVIDIA firmware license permitting redistribution for
95                              use on operating systems distributed under the terms
96                              of an OSI-approved open source license.
97
98          ofl                 SIL Open Font License
99                              https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=OFL
100
101          public-domain       Non-license for code that has been explicitly put
102                              into the Public Domain.
103
104          realtek             RealTek license.
105
106          zlib                Zlib (BSD-like) license.
107                              http://www.zlib.net/zlib_license.html
108
109If a package has components covered by different licenses
110(for example, GPL2 and the LGPL), use the <license> subdirectory
111for the more restrictive license.
112
113If a package allows the choice of a license to use, we'll
114generally use the less restrictive license.
115
116If in doubt about where a package should be located, please
117contact <core@NetBSD.org> for advice.
118
119
120Migration Strategy:
121
122
123Eventually src/dist (and associated framework in other base source
124directories) and src/gnu will be migrated to this hierarchy.
125
126
127Maintenance Strategy:
128
129The sources under src/external/<license>/<package>/dist/ are
130generally a combination of a published distribution plus changes
131that we submit to the maintainers and that are not yet published
132by them.
133
134Make sure all changes made to the external sources are submitted
135to the appropriate maintainer, but only after coordinating with
136the NetBSD maintainers.
137