Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 20:39:33 -0400 From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org> To: Dave Uhring <duhring@charter.net> Cc: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>, Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, Munish Chopra <chopra@runbox.com>, "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: XFS (was: ReiserFS (was: JFS (was: The FreeBSD core team needs your help)))a Message-ID: <20010708203933.U30462@buddha.home.automagic.org> In-Reply-To: <3B48E76C.1050607@charter.net>; from duhring@charter.net on Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 06:06:20PM -0500 References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107091044300.326-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org> <3B48E76C.1050607@charter.net>
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On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 06:06:20PM -0500, Dave Uhring wrote: > Juha Saarinen wrote: > > >On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Dave Uhring wrote: > > > >>But SGI has released XFS under the GPL. Sun, et al, can hardly "leech" > >>their IP due to the provisions of the GPL. > >> > > > >But under the BSD license, they can. At least that's what I was told, but > >I'm not the right person to ask about this. > > [bizarre font non-sequitur] > > Juha, if I understand the GPL correctly, and I am not a lawyer, there is > no way that a GPL product can be converted to a BSD license. The holder of the copyright can reissue code with different licences at will. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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