1$NetBSD: README,v 1.5 2008/10/30 00:27:31 joerg 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 bsd BSD (or equivalent) licensed software, possibly with 45 the "advertising clause". 46 47 gpl2 GNU Public License, version 2 (or earlier). 48 49 intel-fw-oem Intel firmware license with redistribution 50 restricted to OEM. 51 52 intel-fw-public Intel firmware license permitting redistribution with 53 terms similiar to BSD licensed software. 54 55 mit MIT (X11) style license. 56 57If a package has components covered by different licenses 58(for example, GPL2 and the LGPL), use the <license> subdirectory 59for the more restrictive license. 60 61If a package allows the choice of a license to use, we'll 62generally use the less restrictive license. 63 64If in doubt about where a package should be located, please 65contact <core@NetBSD.org> for advice. 66 67 68Migration Strategy: 69 70 71Eventually src/dist (and associated framework in other base source 72directories) and src/gnu will be migrated to this hierarchy. 73 74 75Maintenance Strategy: 76 77The sources under src/external/<license>/<package>/dist/ are 78generally a combination of a published distribution plus changes 79that we submit to the maintainers and that are not yet published 80by them. 81 82Make sure all changes made to the external sources are submitted 83to the appropriate maintainer, but only after coordinating with 84the NetBSD maintainers. 85