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Date:      Sat, 14 Aug 1999 02:15:01 +0100
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        tlambert@primenet.com
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite
Message-ID:  <E11FSPV-0000Px-00@fanf.noc.demon.net>
In-Reply-To: <199908132249.PAA15734@usr04.primenet.com>
References:  <199908111559.KAA24052@plains.NoDak.edu>

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Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> wrote:
>
>Has anyone mentioned to them that they will be unable to incorporate
>changes made to the GPL'ed version of XFS back into the IRIX version
>of XFS, without IRIX becoming GPL'ed?

That is not correct: if SGI only use code that they have full
ownership of in IRIX then they can distribute it separately under the
GPL without releasing the source to the rest of the OS. It's perfectly
valid to distribute software to different people under different
licences (e.g. softupdates, perl).

Tony.
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f.a.n.finch    dot@dotat.at    fanf@demon.net    e pluribus unix


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