Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 21:46:27 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu>, Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite Message-ID: <199908140446.VAA00418@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Aug 1999 19:01:16 PDT." <199908140201.TAA00146@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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> On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 19:49:10 -0400 (EDT) > James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> 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. It doesn't work like that; once it's been distributed with Linux it's no longer BSD-licensed, it's GPLed. They would still be unable to recover post-viral changes and reuse them in their own XFS product. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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