From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 13 18:56:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B849E14D16 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 18:56:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id SAA488282; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 18:56:03 -0700 Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdzlUXaa; Fri Aug 13 18:55:47 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA24133; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 18:55:44 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199908140155.SAA24133@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite To: dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch) Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 01:55:44 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Tony Finch" at Aug 14, 99 02:15:01 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >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). It is correct: they will not be able to incorporate changes, which, by their nature, will be GPL, into a non-GPL product. While it's valid to distribute what you own under two different licenses, it's not going to be possible for them to incorporte improvements to the GPL'ed XFS under any terms other than the GPL, unless they make seperate arrangemenets with the authors. I defy you to grab a single line of the Linux kernel, _at random_, and attribute it to any single author who you could sign a contract with in order to use that line of code commercially. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message