From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 14 21:11:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F06BB14D1A for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:11:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:11:24 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "David Kelly" , Subject: RE: SGI Donated Journalised FS Source to Linux Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:11:24 -0700 Message-ID: <000001beb6e5$21f4f420$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <199906150011.TAA34872@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > "David Schwartz" writes: > > > > Forgive me for making an argument with which I do not > agree, but I think I > > can do it clearly: > > > > The XFS filesystem would not be useful alone, right? > > > > You would need the Linux kernel to use it. > > You would need to use *a* kernel to use it. SGI already uses it with > Irix. An XFS LKM will only work with a *Linux* kernel. We are talking about an LKM, not some generic piece of source code. > So by the above argument, sendmail, XFree86, perl, etc, are all useless > without a kernel to support them. Therefore they too must be infected > with GPL? :-) The sendmail code does not contain any part of the Linux kernel inside it. The argument would be (I think) that an LKM does. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message