From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Mar 25 2: 9:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from thebsh.namesys.com (thebsh.namesys.com [212.16.7.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DBC0437B41A for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 02:09:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 23996 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2002 10:09:40 -0000 Received: from backtop.namesys.com (HELO namesys.com) (212.16.7.71) by thebsh.namesys.com with SMTP; 25 Mar 2002 10:09:40 -0000 Message-ID: <3C9F0500.4050206@namesys.com> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 14:07:44 +0300 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020310 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, Greg Lehey , Chris Mason , Josh MacDonald , Parity Error , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com Subject: Re: [reiserfs-dev]i Re: metadata update durability ordering/softupdates References: <20020318174641.A1153@hpdi.ath.cx> <3C9676B4.49A76589@mindspring.com> <3C9E1DA4.1090703@namesys.com> <3C9E6E28.9D0B8778@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: >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 > > You aren't merely aggregating, you are compiling together and using together, except of course that another poster says you don't really use ext2fs code at all, so this is a moot point. Hans To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message