Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:18:35 +0100 From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: IBM's intentions with JFS (was: IBM suing (was: RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD)) Message-ID: <20011217111835.A43375@tisys.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011217001345.00e26280@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 12:17:42AM -0700 References: <3C186381.6AB07090@yahoo.com> <3C1875D6.5DE4F996@mindspring.com> <3C186381.6AB07090@yahoo.com> <20011214122837.O3448@monorchid.lemis.com> <3C19807D.C441F084@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20011214175450.02da2a90@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011215232233.00e74cc0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011216221810.031b6820@localhost> <20011217163427.A2885@monorchid.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20011217001345.00e26280@localhost>
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On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 12:17:42AM -0700, Brett Glass stood up and spoke: > > >I interpret this to mean "after linking". It would appear to be the > >kernel binary which falls under the GPL. About the only obligation of > >the FreeBSD project would be to make the corresponding source code > >available. > > Not true. The FreeBSD Project would be obliged to license the entire > kernel -- source and binary -- under the GPL. Well, though I currently don't care much about the JFS thing, I think that we already have some GPL thing in the kernel: There seems to a GNU fpu emulator that is under the GPL and can be used instead of the (BSD licensed) standard FPU emulator. I don't think that GNU FPU is on by default in GENERIC, but I guess that JFS might not be either. Therefore, theoretically, as the GNU FPU code has not caused any problems, why should JFS code do? I thought that you were talking about making FreeBSD support the JFS filesystem, and not making FreeBSD *depend* on JFS, so that JFS becomes the main and only filesystem available. Consequently, I don't see any problems here. *If* a possible JFS port would require us to license the whole kernel under the GPL, then I guess the inclusion of the GNU FPU code already does that now. Greetings Nils -- Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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