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Date:      Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:44:43 +0300
From:      Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To:        hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@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:   Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: metadata update durability ordering/soft updates
Message-ID:  <3C96D04B.6060201@namesys.com>
References:  <20020318195817.26106.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com>

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Hiten Pandya wrote:

>--- Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> wrote:
>
>>Hiten Pandya wrote:
>>I actually don't understand the remark about needing to pay me 
>>royalties.  If you leave the GPL on the code, and don't violate the GPL 
>>by integrating it with non-GPL compatible code, you don't need to pay 
>>me.  You can probably talk me into granting waivers on trivially 
>>incompatible with the GPL licenses.  Where you need to pay me is when 
>>you want someone (yourself or MS or anyone....) to be able to add to 
>>BDS+ReiserFS without making their additions free.
>>
>
>I think I get your point (after all this time 8-)).  If someone ports
>ReiserFS
>to FreeBSD, there will be no fee; but if someone makes additions to ReiserFS,
>than they have to pay you for logical business reasons, am I right?
>
If they make non-free additions to reiserfs, or to a kernel that 
reiserfs is a part of.

>
>
>Apart from that, there would be no issue in porting ReiserFS to FreeBSD. One
>more question, if the booting part of ReiserFS was re-written in the BSD
>License, would there be any issues still existing? :-)
>
>Also, I think I also made a clear fact of the Ext2FS code in FreeBSD.  How
>do you think ReiserFS would do in similar situations?, which type of license
>does SuSE use? :)
>
What license is there on that ext2fs code in FreeBSD, is it GPL or other?

>
>
>[ PS.  I am asking the above question in manner which would be clear to
>everyone, so this can be archived and refered to in the future, if these
>kinds of question arise again. Thanks ]
>
>Regards,
>
>  -- Hiten
>
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