Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 21:50:54 +0000 From: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Design a journalled file system Message-ID: <3A8C4F3E.43F4653C@thebarn.com> References: <200102122306.QAA11325@usr08.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: > > Yes, I'm still looking for a commercial license that prohibits > making XFS a stand-alone product, but still allows it be used > in a commercial setting. The Sun License on the original SLPv1, > but fails to grant in perpetuity. It may be that SGIs lawyer > will have to do lawyering to work out one that satisfies them. I've talked a bit more with some the upper management here at SGI. Nothing concrete but the basic feeling: if a license can be found that would satisfy the Free aspect of the BSD community without giving permission to direct competitors ( e.g. Sun ) the ability build and ship a product would then compete with IRIX boxes. I suspect the easiest thing is going to be a license that removes the viral aspect of the GPL but still requires permission from SGI for any commercial application. > > > Hopefully SGI will learn the HP JetSend and the Sun JINI and the > Net/1 & Net/2 TCP/IP lesson: if you want something to be standard, > you can't control it, and if you control it, it won't be standard. > It's going to take time.... opening up XFS was a big step, I suspect most managers in the company don't fully understand what has happened for what could happen. Slow chipping at the old ideas.... > > > > Note: my March 1st offer stands. I have yet to hear how to get > the unencumbered (SGI-only) GPL code... the clock's ticking. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. -- Russell Cattelan -- Digital Elves inc. -- Currently on loan to SGI Linux XFS core developer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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