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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



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