From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 8 17:39:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from buddha.automagic.org (buddha-nexxia.automagic.org [207.61.141.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C7C237B406 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 17:39:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jabley@buddha.automagic.org) Received: (qmail 19184 invoked by uid 100); 9 Jul 2001 00:39:33 -0000 Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 20:39:33 -0400 From: Joe Abley To: Dave Uhring Cc: Juha Saarinen , Matthew Emmerton , Munish Chopra , "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: XFS (was: ReiserFS (was: JFS (was: The FreeBSD core team needs your help)))a Message-ID: <20010708203933.U30462@buddha.home.automagic.org> References: <3B48E76C.1050607@charter.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B48E76C.1050607@charter.net>; from duhring@charter.net on Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 06:06:20PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 06:06:20PM -0500, Dave Uhring wrote: > 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. > > [bizarre font non-sequitur] > > 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 holder of the copyright can reissue code with different licences at will. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message