From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 14 8:45:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from majordomo2.umd.edu (majordomo2.umd.edu [128.8.10.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBC9515108 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 08:45:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac9.wam.umd.edu (root@rac9.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.149]) by majordomo2.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA18382; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 11:45:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac9.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac9.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA11527; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 11:45:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by rac9.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA11519; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 11:45:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac9.wam.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 11:45:11 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard To: Mike Smith Cc: Jason Thorpe , Terry Lambert , Mark Tinguely , Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite In-Reply-To: <199908140446.VAA00418@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > 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. I heard somewhere that Linux was released under a slightly modified GPL to permit the inclusion of BSD code. I assumed they did this to steal the IP stack. Would it be legal to strip the BSD license of say, inetd and put a GPL on it? Many in the Linux community seem to think this is true but I thought that'd be just as bad as my BSD licensed GCC distribution :) Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message