From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 8 18:44: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91B7337B401 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 18:43:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from juha@saarinen.org) Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org ([192.168.1.1]) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hack)) id 15JQ5K-0003rZ-00; Mon, 09 Jul 2001 13:43:38 +1200 Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:43:38 +1200 (NZST) From: Juha Saarinen To: Dave Uhring Cc: Joe Abley , Matthew Emmerton , Munish Chopra , "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: XFS (was: ReiserFS (was: JFS (was: The FreeBSD core team needs your help)))a In-Reply-To: <01070820395300.12819@dave> Message-ID: X-S: Always MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 8 Jul 2001, Dave Uhring wrote: > In a matter such as this the GPL actually protects the IP of the > copyright owner in so far as the competition's ability to use the code > is concerned. If Sun or IBM or ??? wish to use the XFS code, their > improvements to it will be returned to SGI and the public should they > distribute that code and no competitive advantage can be gained. Looks like we've uncovered a Stallmanist stooge on the list. -- Regards, Juha PGP fingerprint: B7E1 CC52 5FCA 9756 B502 10C8 4CD8 B066 12F3 9544 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message