From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 13 19: 3:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.33.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FC4015080 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 19:03:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from lestat (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA00146; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 19:01:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199908140201.TAA00146@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> To: James Howard Cc: Terry Lambert , Mark Tinguely , Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 19:01:16 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 19:49:10 -0400 (EDT) James Howard wrote: > I did, they have a feedback form I filled out yesterday. I mentioned that > and that if they dual licensed the code, it could be used by the entire > free software community, not just the hip Linux crowd and also mentioned > that a great many in the BSD community are interested in the code. Of > course, I phrased it more professionally. The thing is, they don't have to dual license it for it to be usable by both Linux and BSD! Including BSD-licensed code in Linux is prefectly legitimate, and in fact, there is already such code in Linux now. So, if they were to simply put a BSD license on the code, then everyone would be happy, and there wouldn't be any of the dual-license confusion. -- Jason R. Thorpe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message