From owner-freebsd-fs Fri Feb 9 11:39: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from deliverator.sgi.com (deliverator.sgi.com [204.94.214.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC6F937B6EE; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:38:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from ledzep.americas.sgi.com (ledzep.americas.sgi.com [137.38.226.97]) by deliverator.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980310.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id LAA10650; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:37:32 -0800 (PST) mail_from (cattelan@thebarn.com) Received: from gibble.americas.sgi.com (gibble.americas.sgi.com [128.162.195.80]) by ledzep.americas.sgi.com (SGI-SGI-8.9.3/americas-smart-nospam1.1) with ESMTP id NAA26851; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 13:38:32 -0600 (CST) Received: from thebarn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gibble.americas.sgi.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f19JbV020646; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 13:37:31 -0600 Message-ID: <3A8446FA.DCD17C7E@thebarn.com> Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 13:37:30 -0600 From: Russell Cattelan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1-XFS i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Jack Rusher , Sam Leffler , Zhiui Zhang , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Design a journalled file system References: <200102090856.BAA08304@usr08.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: > OK, this is not a license war. I will lay it on the line. > Ok I did get a response from the lawyer... as in typical lawyer talk he didn't give much of a response either way, but I think he is open to discussion. Ok somebody from the BSD camp should an provide an example of an acceptable license. If I can present something other than abstract concept more progress can be made. The one major requirement is that somebody like Sun or IBM can't pick up the code and start commercializing it. And no I'm not saying restricting a commercial product with XFS, but restricting somebody from making XFS a commercial product unto itself. -- Russell Cattelan -- Digital Elves inc. -- Currently on loan to SGI Linux XFS core developer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message