From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 16 8:31:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 912CD14FE9 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 08:31:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA08126; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 08:31:30 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAQKaOTp; Mon Aug 16 08:31:23 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA12294; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 08:31:20 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199908161531.IAA12294@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite To: wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov (Bill Studenmund) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 15:31:20 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu, howardjp@wam.umd.edu, Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Bill Studenmund" at Aug 13, 99 04:01:47 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Has anyone mentioned to them that they will be unable to incorporate > > changes made to the GPL'ed version of XFS back into the IRIX version > > of XFS, without IRIX becoming GPL'ed? > > Given that they say they're dropping IRIX and going with Linux, I don't > think it'll be a problem. Can you please site a reference for this, other than wishful thinking by the Linux camp? PS: I fired off a note to Dr. Forest Baskett at SGI (their senior VP for R & D, and their CTO) about the license, and FS researchers in the BSD community (e.g. Dr. Margo Seltzer, Dr. Kirk McKusick, John Heidemann, et. al.) which will be unable to participated in driving their technology forward because of the license. I will report the response (if any). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message