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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.


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