From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Mar 17 14:42:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from thebsh.namesys.com (thebsh.namesys.com [212.16.7.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7696337B404 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 14:42:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 3528 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2002 22:42:40 -0000 Received: from backtop.namesys.com (HELO namesys.com) (212.16.7.71) by thebsh.namesys.com with SMTP; 17 Mar 2002 22:42:40 -0000 Message-ID: <3C952981.1020209@namesys.com> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 02:40:49 +0300 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020310 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org Cc: Terry Lambert , Chris Mason , Josh MacDonald , Parity Error , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com Subject: Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: metadata update durability ordering/soft updates References: <20020317132017.12789.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Hiten Pandya wrote: >>We would charge for any FreeBSD port, and the license would be a >>limiting (proprietary or GPL) license. There are probably appliance >>vendors and the like who would find this of interest. >> > >OK, I understand there is some big issue going on, but could I possibly know >why there would be a charge to port ReiserFS to FreeBSD? As I have my public > because it is a lot of work.... > >rights, I think it would be much better if it was ported under a limiting >license, such as the LGPL, so ReiserFS can be used as the Boot FS for >FreeBSD. > If you can pay someone else for proprietary enhancements to FreeBSD, you can pay me too.... this is the principle behind offering both GPL'd and fee based licenses of reiserfs. > > >IBM, being a being company, has release their JFS under a GPL license, which >permits us to port it to FreeBSD, wouldn't it better if ReiserFS just took >it one step ahead by making it LGPL? > > -- Hiten > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage >http://sports.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message