Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 16:21:46 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Fwd: IBM denies non-GPL licensing of JFS Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000214162124.03e2ca50@localhost>
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Just received the following message from IBM. Apparently, for reasons unknown, IBM is declining to license JFS under even its own "IBM Public License," but is insisting upon using the GPL only. This is especially ironic and unfortunate because IBM derived the TCP/IP stack for OS/2 from that of NetBSD. Hopefully, in the future, IBM will be more willing to release source under licenses which do not hurt some open source projects while favoring others. --Brett Glass >From: shaggy@us.ibm.com >X-Lotus-FromDomain: IBMUS >To: bsd@us.ibm.com >Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 14:03:40 -0600 > > > >To all those interested in an alternate source license for JFS, > >Thank you for your interest in open sourcing the IBM JFS under a non-GPL >license as well as GPL. We have decided not to do this at this time for a >variety of internal IBM reasons. Although this didn't work out, we're >certainly open to hearing similar suggestions in the future. > >Thanks, >Dave > >Dave Kleikamp >Open Source Development >(512)838-3184 T/L 678-3184 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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