Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 02:40:49 +0300 From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> To: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>, Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU>, Parity Error <bootup@mail.ru>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com Subject: Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: metadata update durability ordering/soft updates Message-ID: <3C952981.1020209@namesys.com> References: <20020317132017.12789.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com>
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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
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