From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Mar 18 2: 2:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from thebsh.namesys.com (thebsh.namesys.com [212.16.7.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD12C37B41E for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 02:02:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 4678 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2002 10:02:10 -0000 Received: from backtop.namesys.com (HELO namesys.com) (212.16.7.71) by thebsh.namesys.com with SMTP; 18 Mar 2002 10:02:10 -0000 Message-ID: <3C95C8C3.7080803@namesys.com> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:00:19 +0300 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020310 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, Chris Mason , Josh MacDonald , Parity Error , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com Subject: Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: metadata update durability ordering/soft updates References: <20020317225759.82774.qmail@web21109.mail.yahoo.com> <3C95ACBA.4040108@namesys.com> <3C95B838.F8ECE39A@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: >Hans Reiser wrote: > >>You can port it for free if you port it to a GPL'd OS (or port the OS to >>the GPL). >> > >Or you can port it and then use it on any OS you want, so long >as you are an end user, and not a company who sells OSs, so >long as you don't redistribute the result... the GPL doesn't >kick in until you attempt to exercise distribution rights. > This is often said, but not what the license language says. I think it is wishful thinking. If you distribute, you must make it public. That includes FAPSI, NSA, anyone. > > >You could also, for example, build a company that charged to >store data on the GPL'ed ReiserFS, ported to some proprietary >OS, and as long as you never sold your hosting platforms to > ^sold^distributed the software for > >anyone, there'd be no problem. You could call your new company >"Defeat-the-spirit-of-the-GPL Data Vaulting, Incorporated". > > >-- Terry > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message