Date: 14 Jun 1999 09:25:10 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Tani Hosokawa <unknown@riverstyx.net>, Morten Seeberg <morten@seeberg.dk>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SGI Donated Journalised FS Source to Linux Message-ID: <xzppv2zfdm1.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: David Kelly's message of "Sun, 13 Jun 1999 22:06:12 -0500" References: <199906140306.WAA30138@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> writes: > Tani Hosokawa writes: > > From what I understand, it's going to be GPL'd. > Oh? Where did you hear that? > [...] > While the above are liberally sprinkled with the word, "Linux", the SGI > press release does not say XFS is being contributed to Linux, but "to > the Open Source Community." Big difference. The news article appears to > have taken liberties attributing XFS to Linux as it was announced at a > Linux show. You know the media can't tell the difference between > FreeBSD, Linux, Macintosh, and Chernobyl. :-) Granted, but considering that the rest of the Linux kernel is under GPL, XFS pretty much *has* to be under GPL unless it's implemented as a userland process. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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