From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jun 10 17:22:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from messiah.megadeb.org (cpe.atm0-0-0-218131.arcnxx5.customer.tele.dk [62.242.79.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E1A437B401 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 17:22:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chopra@runbox.com) Received: (from chopra@localhost) by messiah.megadeb.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f5B0O4b78609 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 02:24:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from chopra) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 02:24:04 +0200 From: Munish Chopra To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: Improvements for FreeBSD v4.3.1-Release? Message-ID: <20010611022404.B78552@messiah.megadeb.org> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-Stable References: <01061019023702.00853@dave.uhring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from juha@saarinen.org on Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 12:07:25PM +1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 12:07:25PM +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote: > > Since XFS is GPL'd, inclusion with the FreeBSD kernel seems problematic, > > however. > > They might be open to changing the license... worth asking, perhaps. Highly doubt that. SGI is dumping IRIX for Linux, and pretty much putting it's cards down on it. Last time I checked they were doing quite a bit of Linux development besides the XFS stuff. I'm not sure how smart it would be for them to change license, or to focus on anything but Linux anyway (unless they're suddenly finding Linux too hard to get through to). There has been some talk of them ticking off linux-dev... -- -Munish To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message