Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:41:32 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org Cc: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>, 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: <20020318004132.GA4857@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20020317225759.82774.qmail@web21109.mail.yahoo.com> References: <3C952981.1020209@namesys.com> <20020317225759.82774.qmail@web21109.mail.yahoo.com>
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* Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> [020317 14:58] wrote: > --- Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> wrote: > > because it is a lot of work.... > > [ ... ] > > > 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. > > So, putting it in a nutshell, and hopefully closing this topic, we cannot > port ReiserFS for free, right..? :| So for SuSE linux users, it would be > one helluva task to switch to FreeBSD if they ever even wanted to. If _you_ ported it, it would be GPL. If _you_ clean-room implemented it, it would be whatever license you like. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductible donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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