Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 02:26:45 -0800 (PST) From: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011211102645.46795.qmail@web21110.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20011211093550.D4BF638CC@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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> [... Hiten want's to GPL'ify FreeBSD ...] hi, first of all, i would like to clear of some point which have been taken wrongly. o My Intentions were never to GPL'ify FreeBSD :-) o The reason i started this discussion was because i think JFS/JFS2 would be a nice addition to FreeBSD like the rest of the other filesystems. o The JFS does _not_ have to be root, and even if people were to download it because it is GPL'ed, the size of the filesystem is only around 1.0MB o Statistically, not everyone is going to run after IBM's JFS, when there are other similar File Systems o If people did want JFS, they can download it of our website, say http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jfs o It can also be a child project, like the JAVA Project. o I think, (personally), that we migh be able to get more Corporates attracted, if we take the step of porting quality (not exactly) GPL'ed technologies for FreeBSD (my personal thoughts) o It is hard to Port AIX or OS/2 based code, but we have to agree that, BSD Users were meant to take that kind of challenges, have taken before o The JFS, can just be a bonus addition for FreeBSD, and does not have to be part of the base addition, example: CD-ROMS /DVD or any other releases which prohibit GNU Code. ===== -Hiten, Thank You, Yours Sincerely, Hiten Pandya, <hiten@uk.freebsd.org> <http://www.geocities.com/hitmaster2k>; __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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