Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 01:23:41 -0600 From: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Robert Clark <res03db2@gte.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Jack Rusher <jar@integratus.com>, Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>, Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Design a journalled file system Message-ID: <3A936CFC.DE5F3775@thebarn.com> References: <200102210404.VAA06482@usr05.primenet.com>
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Sorry nothing new to report. I've been looking over other open source licenses in the hope of finding examples to start drafting a workable license for XFS on BSD. Sorry folks this is going to be a slow process. Terry Lambert wrote: > > Terry, > > Did you hear anything positive from SGI > > about the possibility of porting XFS? > > [RC] > > The last thing I heard was a second hand offer to consider > releasing under a different license, with the requirement > that someone couldn't make the thing into a product on its > own. > > I don't really have parameters beyond that. It appears to > me that the LGPL would be unacceptable, from that standpoint. > > If they are willing to have it be part of a larger product > (my thinking here is that they want indemnification, which > comes easily that way), then there are some obvious ways to > write the license. IBM Alphaworks, and Sun's SLPv1 license > has a similar restriction on "this can't be a product, without > additional work". > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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