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Date:      Fri, 04 Feb 2000 15:28:34 -0700
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        bpechter@shell.monmouth.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: JFS and IBM
Message-ID:  <389B5292.A7A8B6D4@softweyr.com>
References:  <200002041957.OAA06981@bg-tc-ppp600.monmouth.com>

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Bill Pechter wrote:
> 
> Folks, while some of us were at Linux expo talking about journaling file
> systems and *BSD, IBM released jfs to the GPL.
> 
> Is there anyone working on this as a gpl'd add-in to *BSD?

You apparently haven't noticed the war of words going on on 
http://daily.daemonnews.org/ on this very topic?  I think this is going
to be our most "popular", or at least commented on, article to date.

Greg Lehey has downloaded the code and looked at it.  Despite my cheering 
and enthusiasm, he reports that we should wait until he actually produces 
something to pronounce him a hero.  ;^)

> Is this as much of a surprise to all of you as to me... I thought jfs
> would remain a tightly held OSF/1 component that would never see
> "free" status.

It's released under GPL, so it's still not free.  It is available, though.

-- 
            "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com                                           http://softweyr.com/


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