From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Mar 18 0:11:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from thebsh.namesys.com (thebsh.namesys.com [212.16.7.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 74CAA37B402 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 00:11:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 26764 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2002 08:11:33 -0000 Received: from backtop.namesys.com (HELO namesys.com) (212.16.7.71) by thebsh.namesys.com with SMTP; 18 Mar 2002 08:11:33 -0000 Message-ID: <3C95AED7.9080101@namesys.com> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:09:43 +0300 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020310 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, Terry Lambert , Chris Mason , Josh MacDonald , Parity Error , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com Subject: Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: metadata update durability ordering/soft updates References: <3C910C57.71C2D823@mindspring.com> <20020315065651.02637@helen.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <3C923C91.454D7710@mindspring.com> <1562810000.1016224776@tiny> <3C928D21.404EA11D@mindspring.com> <1714680000.1016298986@tiny> <3C93BBF1.7E8801DF@mindspring.com> <3C946B57.3060403@namesys.com> <3C946B33.888F2281@mindspring.com> <3C948B98.2080703@namesys.com> <20020318111521.A70252@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey wrote: > >I think you're misunderstanding. If I understand Hans correctly, the >charge would be for the work done, not the license. > This is true, we would charge ~$500k to port to BSD for the work of doing the port (price assumes fixed price contract, if time and materials it could be less). We would also need to put a license on it that would restrain its usage such that, say, Microsoft, could not then use it in Windows without paying us. The GPL is such a restraint. Other options are possible to explore if anyone gets serious about it. Sales of licenses in addition to the GPL are about 40% of our income, and likely to increase this year dramatically. They are my best hope for being able to pay typical US wages to most of my employees. >It's clear enough >that there's no charge for the GPL. > >I can certainly understand that there would be a (significant) charge >associated with such a non-trivial port. > >Greg >-- >See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message