From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 14 1:17:23 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 867D914E89 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 01:17:21 -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 KAA59204; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:17:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Tani Hosokawa Cc: David Kelly , Morten Seeberg , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SGI Donated Journalised FS Source to Linux References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 14 Jun 1999 10:17:15 +0200 In-Reply-To: Tani Hosokawa's message of "Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:06:06 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tani Hosokawa writes: > "All the development that SGI is doing on the Linux kernel will be > released under GPL, and that includes page cache and buffer cache > changes we might be making for XFS. Note however that XFS itself > is not part of the kernel but rather a loadable module. The terms > of the XFS license are still being reviewed by our legal staff. I hope they won't be too busy "reviewing the terms of the XFS license" to read the GPL and discover that it requires them to release XFS under GPL, even if it is "not part of the kernel but rather a loadable module". 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