From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 13 18:14:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fanf.noc.demon.net (fanf.noc.demon.net [195.11.55.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69C8F14FAC for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 18:14:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fanf@demon.net) Received: from fanf by fanf.noc.demon.net with local (Exim 3.02 #13) id 11FSPV-0000Px-00; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 02:15:01 +0100 To: tlambert@primenet.com From: Tony Finch Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite In-Reply-To: <199908132249.PAA15734@usr04.primenet.com> References: <199908111559.KAA24052@plains.NoDak.edu> Message-Id: Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 02:15:01 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > >Has anyone mentioned to them that they will be unable to incorporate >changes made to the GPL'ed version of XFS back into the IRIX version >of XFS, without IRIX becoming GPL'ed? That is not correct: if SGI only use code that they have full ownership of in IRIX then they can distribute it separately under the GPL without releasing the source to the rest of the OS. It's perfectly valid to distribute software to different people under different licences (e.g. softupdates, perl). Tony. -- f.a.n.finch dot@dotat.at fanf@demon.net e pluribus unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message