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From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@nic.follonett.no>
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Subject: Re: Feasibility of porting Linux filesystem code?
To: davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu (David S. Miller)
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 16:43:46 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199704171016.GAA03221@jenolan.caipgeneral> from "David S. Miller" at "Apr 17, 97 06:16:55 am"
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> XFS is SGI's bread and butter, if you write a freely available version
> of it you'd:
> 
> 1) Have to reverse engineer it completely
> 2) Would have a building full of lawyers on your ass
> 
> I know because I investigated such a thing ad nauseum while I was
> hacking Linux at SGI, and that was the final word.

Somebody from europe could do it.  I at least know that I'm not prevented
from reverse-engineering as long as I don't use the actual code.
(I don't think I have the time for that project, but I wouldn't have a
legal problem)