Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 22:36:30 -0500 From: "Brian Haskin" <haskin@ptway.com> To: "Julian Elischer" <julian@whistle.com>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: kirk's soft-update integration.. Message-ID: <004f01bd311e$16bb5e80$0b00000a@brianjr.haskin.org>
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Julian, I don't see the "poison pill" in here for commercial use, in fact this looks fairly similar to the "BSD" licensee to me (a non-legal type). Perhaps the poison pill was in a different file? Brian Haskin -----Original Message----- From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Tuesday, February 03, 1998 9:32 PM Subject: kirk's soft-update integration.. >Kirk's soft update code has a poison pill license for >commercial use, (he gives the license on a case by case basis) but >it greatly speeds up FS access, and is freely usable for private >use. The patches, when added to FreeBSD actually do yield a slight [snip explanation of package] > >the license is: > >/* > * Copyright 1997 Marshall Kirk McKusick. All Rights Reserved. > * > * The soft updates code is derived from the appendix of a University > * of Michigan technical report (Gregory R. Ganger and Yale N. Patt, > * "Soft Updates: A Solution to the Metadata Update Problem in File > * Systems", CSE-TR-254-95, August 1995). > * > * The following are the copyrights and redistribution conditions that > * apply to this copy of the soft update software. For a license > * to use, redistribute or sell the soft update software under > * conditions other than those described here, please contact the > * author at one of the following addresses: > * > * Marshall Kirk McKusick mckusick@mckusick.com > * 1614 Oxford Street +1-510-843-9542 > * Berkeley, CA 94709-1608 > * USA > * > * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without > * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions > * are met: > * > * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright > * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. > * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright > * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in >the > * documentation and/or other materials provided with the >distribution. > * 3. None of the names of McKusick, Ganger, Patt, or the University of > * Michigan may be used to endorse or promote products derived from > * this software without specific prior written permission. > * 4. Redistributions in any form must be accompanied by information on > * how to obtain complete source code for any accompanying software > * that uses the this software. This source code must either be >included > * in the distribution or be available for no more than the cost of > * distribution plus a nominal fee, and must be freely >redistributable > * under reasonable conditions. For an executable file, complete > * source code means the source code for all modules it contains. > * It does not mean source code for modules or files that typically > * accompany the operating system on which the executable file runs, > * e.g., standard library modules or system header files. > * > * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY MARSHALL KIRK MCKUSICK ``AS IS'' AND ANY > * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE >IMPLIED > * WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE >ARE > * DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL MARSHALL KIRK MCKUSICK BE LIABLE FOR > * ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR >CONSEQUENTIAL > * DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE >GOODS > * OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) > * HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, >STRICT > * LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY >WAY > * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY >OF > * SUCH DAMAGE. > * > * @(#)ffs_softdep.c 9.12 (McKusick) 12/2/97 > */
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