Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 16:43:46 +0200 (MET DST) From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@nic.follonett.no> To: davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu (David S. Miller) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Feasibility of porting Linux filesystem code? Message-ID: <199704171443.QAA03128@nic.follonett.no> In-Reply-To: <199704171016.GAA03221@jenolan.caipgeneral> from "David S. Miller" at "Apr 17, 97 06:16:55 am"
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> XFS is SGI's bread and butter, if you write a freely available version > of it you'd: > > 1) Have to reverse engineer it completely > 2) Would have a building full of lawyers on your ass > > I know because I investigated such a thing ad nauseum while I was > hacking Linux at SGI, and that was the final word. Somebody from europe could do it. I at least know that I'm not prevented from reverse-engineering as long as I don't use the actual code. (I don't think I have the time for that project, but I wouldn't have a legal problem)
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