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To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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Subject: Re: [reiserfs-dev]i Re: metadata update durability ordering/softupdates
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Hans Reiser wrote:

[ ... GPL'ed EXT2FS bits being available on the CDROM as source
      code, but not compiled into a distributed FreeBSD kernel ... ]

> I think you guys are violating the GPL on ext2fs (assuming you are
> correct that the UCB 4 part license violates the GPL --- I haven't read
> that license).

Well, feel free to bring a lawsuit.  In the U.S., the loser
pays court costs, so be sure you can win before you start.

In reality, a great many lawyers have examined "mere agregration"
like this, and decided that it's not a problem, and the license
specifically states that it doesn't apply, in the last paragraph
of section 2 of the license:

	In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based
	on the Program with the Program (or with a work based
	on the Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution
	medium does not bring the other work under the scope of
	this License.

I think this applies to the BeOS case, as well.

-- Terry

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