Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 18:29:22 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SGI releases XFS under GPL Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000930182745.0484cbe0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20000928104939.B13020@fling.sanbi.ac.za>
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At 02:49 AM 9/28/2000, Johann Visagie wrote: >Our Irix sysadmin here has been going on about SGI's XFS journaling >filesystem for some time. I see on /. they've now released a beta of XFS >under GPL for Linux: > > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/beta.html > >I'm idly wondering whether it would be possible (or indeed desirable) to port >this to FreeBSD. Not if it's under the GPL, because this malicious "poison pill" license would further infect the source tree. Perhaps if SGI were willing to release it to the FreeBSD project under a license which is compatible with the BSD license.... --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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