From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 8 18:47:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dc-mx07.cluster1.charter.net (dc-mx07.cluster0.hsacorp.net [209.225.8.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB51A37B405 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 18:47:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from duhring@charter.net) Received: from [24.217.157.157] (HELO dave) by dc-mx07.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.4.6) with SMTP id 11414099; Sun, 08 Jul 2001 21:54:55 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Dave Uhring To: "Matthew Emmerton" , Subject: Re: XFS (was: ReiserFS (was: JFS (was: The FreeBSD core team needs your help)))a Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 20:47:53 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <3B48E1B0.4000302@charter.net> <009901c1080e$9baa05e0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <009901c1080e$9baa05e0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01070820475301.12819@dave> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Sunday 08 July 2001 19:32, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > This "virus-like" aspect of the GPL is also very loudly explained in > a 12-page presentation distributed internally to all developers at > IBM. (The virus-like aspect is a big deal. If someone accidentally > *statically* linked a piece of GPL'd object code, such as GNU > getopt(), into a major product such as DB2 EEE for Linux, then they > would be forced to open the code to DB2. That would not be a very > profitable move for IBM.) > > The problem for me (as a developer who would love to port XFS to > FreeBSD, but by being employed by IBM, cannot), is that IBM would > have IP rights over any changes that I would have to submit back to > SGI in order to make XFS work on FreeBSD. For IBM to release that > code under the GPL, SGI would have to work with IBM and come to an > agreement (which would involve all of the IP laywers from the two > firms battling it out). Since this process would take months and a > pile of cash, FreeBSD would never see XFS. > > Sad, but true. Maybe I need to switch companies :) > > -- > Matt Emmerton > No need to switch companies over something like this. Fix up JFS for FreeBSD :-) and stay with IBM. You are probably correct, as sad as it is, that the lawyers would have a hay day with all these licenses. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message