From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 14 9:23:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF8791504F for ; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 09:23:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA57462; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 12:23:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 12:23:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: James Howard Cc: Mike Smith , Jason Thorpe , Terry Lambert , Mark Tinguely , Hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite In-Reply-To: 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 Sat, 14 Aug 1999, James Howard wrote: > 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. Most likely. > > 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 :) No. You'd have to modify the GPL to include the copyright and BSD clauses. But what would be interesting is: I'm fairly sure that under the terms of the GPL the end-user may opt to use a later version at their discretion. Now, if one were to buy out the FSF... > > Jamie > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message