Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 18:06:20 -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: <3B48E76C.1050607@charter.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107091044300.326-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org>
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Juha Saarinen wrote: >On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Dave Uhring wrote: > >>But SGI has released XFS under the GPL. Sun, et al, can hardly "leech" >>their IP due to the provisions of the GPL. >> > >But under the BSD license, they can. At least that's what I was told, but >I'm not the right person to ask about this. > > I seem to have made an improper assumption earlier regarding www.sistina.com and apologize to all. Even though the Arial font is indeed available universally, it is not generally available on a Linux/Unix platform. And I wrongly assumed that that site was using Microsoft IIS for its web server; it is not. It is using Debian GNU/Linux and Apache 1.3.20. Juha, if I understand the GPL correctly, and I am not a lawyer, there is no way that a GPL product can be converted to a BSD license. The other way around, yes. GNU source code is kept separate in the FreeBSD source tree partially to isolate it from the BSD licensed code. And the source code for modified GNU code is always made available publicly. Yet the GNU code retains its own license without having been "corrupted", if you will, by the BSD license. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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