Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 10:44:14 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jar@integratus.com (Jack Rusher), sam@errno.com (Sam Leffler), zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu (Zhiui Zhang), freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Design a journalled file system Message-ID: <200102271844.f1RIiE730029@mobile.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <v04220801b6c198917245@[194.78.241.126]>
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Brad Knowles wrote: > At 3:46 AM +0000 2/27/01, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Because you can't ditribute a FreeBSD kernel with GPL'ed code > > linked into it legally, due to the GPL disallowing distribution > > of the code with non-GPL'ed code. > > > > Yes, changing the license to the LGPL would fix the problem. > > Ahh, okay. I haven't been watching the list very closely the > last couple of days, and I had somehow come to the mistaken > conclusion that your statement was made on the basis of technical > reasons as opposed to license issues, and I just couldn't see how > there would be technical problems with what you were proposing. > > Thanks for the clarification! loader(8)'s requirements are so radically different to "real" file system code that no real code sharing is done. msdos, ufs, ext2fs etc are all essentially microscopic dumb simple readers. There is no way SGI's XFS would ever be linked in, regardless of license. If it was done, it would be a simple dumb low level reader that was done from the ground up, just like the rest of the fs stubs in there. ie: the SGI XFS license is irrelevant. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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