Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 17:58:44 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: 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: <4.3.2.7.2.20011214175450.02da2a90@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20011215103210.G85108@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <g6lmg69r72.mg6@localhost.localdomain> <3C19807D.C441F084@mindspring.com> <3C186381.6AB07090@yahoo.com> <3C1875D6.5DE4F996@mindspring.com> <1id71idej9.71i@localhost.localdomain> <3C1875D6.5DE4F996@mindspring.com> <20011213051012.Y56723-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <3C186381.6AB07090@yahoo.com> <3C1875D6.5DE4F996@mindspring.com> <3C186381.6AB07090@yahoo.com> <20011214122837.O3448@monorchid.lemis.com> <3C19807D.C441F084@mindspring.com>
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At 05:02 PM 12/14/2001, Greg Lehey wrote: >Correct. But there's this funny agreement that loading modules falls >under the LGPL, not the GPL. Linux is licensed under a variant of the GPL that allows the linking of modules and libraries that are not GPLed. This does not apply at all to this case, in which the module WOULD be GPLed. There should NEVER be any GPLed kernel module for FreeBSD. As far as I'm concerned, IBM wrote off any chance of having JFS ported to anything other than Linux when it GPLed it. It was a horrible decision. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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