From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 13 18:53:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B09237B405; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 18:53:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 61512786E6; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 13:23:15 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 13:23:15 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Chad David 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: <20011214132315.E35595@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011213074611.01b923a0@localhost> <20011213164444.4572.qmail@web21108.mail.yahoo.com> <20011214123359.P3448@monorchid.lemis.com> <20011213191132.A6676@colnta.acns.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011213191132.A6676@colnta.acns.ab.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 Thursday, 13 December 2001 at 19:11:32 -0700, Chad David wrote: > 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? Because it's a lot of work. Anyway, your condition doesn't apply. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message