From owner-freebsd-fs Wed Mar 20 15:19:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B4D437B436 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 15:19:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b137.otenet.gr [212.205.244.145]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2KNJAxY015888; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 01:19:12 +0200 (EET) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2KNIw57000929; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 01:19:06 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2KNCMNN066378; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 01:12:22 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 01:12:21 +0200 (EET) From: Giorgos Keramidas X-X-Sender: charon@hades To: Hiten Pandya Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [reiserfs-dev]i Re: metadata update durability ordering/soft updates In-Reply-To: <20020318174641.A1153@hpdi.ath.cx> Message-ID: <20020321010811.E6735-100000@hades> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2002-03-18 17:46, Hiten Pandya wrote: > So from what you are saying, I can (if I wanted to 8-)) port ReiserFS > to FreeBSD, under the GPL License, but that would be of no point, > because it cannot be used as a boot FS unless a royalty was paid to > the Hans for the rights, right? :) > > I don't understand one thing though, what are we doing in the case of > Ext2FS, which is supported in FreeBSD. As far as I know, the Ext2FS > version of FreeBSD has also got some GPL'ed bits? The Ext2FS is > supplied as a source filesystem on FreeBSD CD-ROMs and people are > allowed to sell them... They are not allowed to link them in the boot kernel used on those cdroms though. The source is made available, but anything that is 'linked' with the GPL is 'tainted'. I have a nice article on my desk by Greg Lehey that explains this in an interesting way. It even has quotes from R. Stallman himself, making a few things more clear. It's title is "Two kinds of advocacy", and you can find it at: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200202/dadvocate.html Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message