Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 08:14:57 +0000 From: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> To: chat@FreeBSD.org, tlambert2@mindspring.com, grog@FreeBSD.org, phk@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IBM suing (was: RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD) Message-ID: <3C186381.6AB07090@yahoo.com>
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Hello, People, my apologies, I am only 15 years old (15 1/2 technically), i haven't been to IBM even to buy a mouse. But the laws of business and competence are same in any part of universe. :-) (get it.. albert einstein.. :-) I would say that, arguing about what IBM likes and dislikes is not really the approach of solving the problem, as how i think accord. to my 'blunt' mentality. :-) The real way to solve this problem is: IBM has release JFS code under the 'General Public License'. What we have to do is ask this question internally to IBM, which Greg might do that for us, if possible; and then we see what the JFS Team from IBM's views are about this. If they think that porting JFS to FreeBSD is a waste of time and energy, because of the licensing issues, than we can take an alternate approach to 'crash recovery' problems and journalling, example: A project called UFS2, which would be our target for improving current UFS code. But if they say 'Yes' or are positive that something can be worked out legally, or according to the license(s), than we can go on and start our project called 'JFS4BSD', and get things sorted that way. If we get positive results by September 2002, that JFS code has been ported in its entirety without affecting FreeBSD or the Licensing terms in any manner of way, than we can possibly, merge it (under src/gnu or something) to FreeBSD. In a nutshell: We should ask IBM JFS (Core) Team, and see what they say; We Start the Project || UFS2. If you would like my notes on JFS4BSD (porting), please let me know offlist about why i have thought of porting JFS to FreeBSD. Thank You, =Hiten =<hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org> --------------------------------------------------- Born on the Day the First Ever Shuttle was launched --------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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