Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 20:47:53 -0500 From: Dave Uhring <duhring@charter.net> To: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: XFS (was: ReiserFS (was: JFS (was: The FreeBSD core team needs your help)))a Message-ID: <01070820475301.12819@dave> In-Reply-To: <009901c1080e$9baa05e0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107090901340.326-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org> <3B48E1B0.4000302@charter.net> <009901c1080e$9baa05e0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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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
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