Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 03:46:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: brad.knowles@skynet.be (Brad Knowles) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jar@integratus.com (Jack Rusher), sam@errno.com (Sam Leffler), zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu (Zhiui Zhang), freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Design a journalled file system Message-ID: <200102270346.UAA10815@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <v04220802b6c061bdaf79@[194.78.241.124]> from "Brad Knowles" at Feb 26, 2001 08:41:47 PM
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> >> I'm not sure that is true. You can always load a kld from loader(8). > > > > Not from an XFS root filesystem, you can't. > > I'm confused -- why do you make this statement? Is it because of > the GPL license that the XFS code is released under? If so, then > would something like the LGPL change that issue? Because you can't ditribute a FreeBSD kernel with GPL'ed code linked into it legally, due to the GPL disallowing distribution of the code with non-GPL'ed code. Yes, changing the license to the LGPL would fix the problem. Neither the LGPL nor the GPL really address the concerns about productization that are attributed to SGI, however; the LGPL much less so. My understanding is that they are worried about third party competition cannibalizing their market using their own code to do it. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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