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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]
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 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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