From owner-freebsd-fs Wed Feb 7 13:56:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mail.integratus.com (unknown [63.209.2.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B77FF37B6AD for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 13:56:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 3611 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2001 21:56:32 -0000 Received: from kungfu.integratus.com (HELO integratus.com) (172.20.5.168) by tortuga1.integratus.com with SMTP; 7 Feb 2001 21:56:32 -0000 Message-ID: <3A81C490.598F7EB7@integratus.com> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 13:56:32 -0800 From: Jack Rusher Organization: http://www.integratus.com/ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: Sam Leffler , Zhiui Zhang , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Design a journalled file system References: <200102072148.OAA25001@usr08.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: > > Unfortunately, this license means that it can not be distributed > compiled into a FreeBSD kernel, since clause 6 of the GPL will > specifically prohibit such distribution. I have been wondering about this legal issue lately. What is the law with regards to implementing XFS as a KLM for FreeBSD & shipping the source in contrib? It won't help people who are trying to make commercial products with embedded FreeBSD, but it might be useful for sysadmins. > point of failure for boot, and therefore the increased MTBF > that supposedly comes from using an advanced FS does nothing > for the overall MTBF. Mirror the boot partition with vinum? > I rather suspect that the GPL was intentionally chosen by SGI > to permit them to jump on the Linux/Open Source bandwagon, > without exposing them to the risk of a commercial organization > which competes with SGI being able to benefit from the technology This is unquestionably true. I have word from some of the architects who helped design XFS that this was exactly the reason GPL was chosen over the BSD license. -- Jack Rusher, Senior Engineer | mailto:jar@integratus.com Integratus, Inc. | http://www.integratus.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message