Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:57:46 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>, Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU>, Parity Error <bootup@mail.ru>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com Subject: GPL license issues (was: [reiserfs-dev]i Re: metadata update durability ordering/soft updates) Message-ID: <20020319095746.D93909@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3C9676B4.49A76589@mindspring.com> References: <20020318174641.A1153@hpdi.ath.cx> <3C9676B4.49A76589@mindspring.com>
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On Monday, 18 March 2002 at 15:22:28 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Hiten Pandya wrote: >> So from what you are saying, I can (if I wanted to 8-)) port ReiserFS >> to FreeBSD, under the GPL License, but that would be of no point, >> because it cannot be used as a boot FS unless a royalty was paid to >> the Hans for the rights, right? :) > > You would have to buy him out of the GPL license for your > application. No. In the case of ReiserFS, you *can* apparently do it. You don't have to. > Note that the same argument goes for your JFS port project to > FreeBSD, since the JFS is under GPL. You would have to deal with > IBM on that one. No. IBM has made this very clear in the past. So has rms. >> Wouldn't this be the same thing in the case of a GPL'ed ReiserFS, >> XFS or any other GPL'ed filesystem or code? > > Yes. > > It can not be distributed compiled into a kernel distributed on > CDROM, legally, because of the license conflict, but it can be used > in an after-market fashion by an end user. No. This is wrong. If someone were to do this, they would have to distribute the kernel binary under GPL. No other changes would apply. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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