Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 17:41:52 -0500 From: Dave Uhring <duhring@charter.net> To: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> Cc: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, Munish Chopra <chopra@runbox.com>, "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: XFS (was: ReiserFS (was: JFS (was: The FreeBSD core team needs your help)))a Message-ID: <3B48E1B0.4000302@charter.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107090901340.326-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org>
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Juha Saarinen wrote: >On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > >>So why don't we get a FreeBSD port of XFS done "real soon now", see what >>kind of kernel mods we have to make, and talk nice to the SGI folks? If >>they're running into brick walls at every turn on the Linux path, why don't >>we make the FreeBSD path look like the yellow brick road? It may be a great >>way to get some SGI resources headed the way of FreeBSD. >> > >I asked about this before... SGI isn't keen on Sun, Microsoft, IBM et al >"leeching" its intellectual property, so while the developers like the >idea, the lawyers are dead against it. > > But SGI has released XFS under the GPL. Sun, et al, can hardly "leech" their IP due to the provisions of the GPL. Any modifications made to SGI's product and distributed must have the source code also made public. This is the "virus-like" aspect of GPL about which Microsoft has been complaining so loudly; MSFT cannot use the code without risking the exposure of their own IP. Surely the lawyers are able to understand that the GPL actually protects the XFS code from exploitation by SGI's competitors. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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