From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 14 0:25:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2F5915280 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 00:25:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA56481; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 09:25:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: David Kelly Cc: Tani Hosokawa , Morten Seeberg , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SGI Donated Journalised FS Source to Linux References: <199906140306.WAA30138@nospam.hiwaay.net> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 14 Jun 1999 09:25:10 +0200 In-Reply-To: David Kelly's message of "Sun, 13 Jun 1999 22:06:12 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Kelly writes: > Tani Hosokawa writes: > > From what I understand, it's going to be GPL'd. > Oh? Where did you hear that? > [...] > While the above are liberally sprinkled with the word, "Linux", the SGI > press release does not say XFS is being contributed to Linux, but "to > the Open Source Community." Big difference. The news article appears to > have taken liberties attributing XFS to Linux as it was announced at a > Linux show. You know the media can't tell the difference between > FreeBSD, Linux, Macintosh, and Chernobyl. :-) Granted, but considering that the rest of the Linux kernel is under GPL, XFS pretty much *has* to be under GPL unless it's implemented as a userland process. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message