From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 13 18:11:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.acns.ab.ca (h24-64-56-135.cg.shawcable.net [24.64.56.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82FA137B405; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 18:11:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from colnta.acns.ab.ca (colnta.acns.ab.ca [192.168.1.2]) by mail.acns.ab.ca (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBE2BWS13142; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 19:11:32 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from davidc@colnta.acns.ab.ca) Received: (from davidc@localhost) by colnta.acns.ab.ca (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fBE2BWr06698; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 19:11:32 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from davidc) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 19:11:32 -0700 From: Chad David To: Greg Lehey Cc: Hiten Pandya , Brett Glass , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, tlambert2@mindspring.com Subject: Re: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD [VOTE] Message-ID: <20011213191132.A6676@colnta.acns.ab.ca> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011213074611.01b923a0@localhost> <20011213164444.4572.qmail@web21108.mail.yahoo.com> <20011214123359.P3448@monorchid.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011214123359.P3448@monorchid.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:33:59PM +1030 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:33:59PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 13 December 2001 at 8:44:44 -0800, Hiten Pandya wrote: > > hi, > > (from the person who started the JFS for FreeBSD) > > > > please, lets not get into this, what do you propose > > we should do (the porters), one way or the other, we > > are going to use GPL code.. > > > > which one shall it be? > > JFS or XFS If everybody wants a filesystem with the features of JFS and XFS, but the licensing of the ones already in existance will make RMS sue you, then why not just write a new one from scratch? Then the issue of portability and licensing just go away, and you can toss GFS into the mix for fun. :-). (I am half serious). -- Chad David davidc@acns.ab.ca ACNS Inc. Calgary, Alberta Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message