From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 13 21:53:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles530.castles.com [208.214.165.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F079814EA4 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 21:53:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA00418; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 21:46:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199908140446.VAA00418@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Jason Thorpe Cc: James Howard , Terry Lambert , Mark Tinguely , Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 13 Aug 1999 19:01:16 PDT." <199908140201.TAA00146@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 21:46:27 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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. 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