From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 14 17: 8:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE03637B405; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 17:08:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id EBDF6786E4; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 11:38:36 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 11:38:36 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Brett Glass Cc: Terry Lambert , "Gary W. Swearingen" , hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, "Brandon D. Valentine" , Hiten Pandya , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: IBM's intentions with JFS (was: IBM suing (was: RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD)) Message-ID: <20011215113836.O85108@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <3C1875D6.5DE4F996@mindspring.com> <1id71idej9.71i@localhost.localdomain> <3C1875D6.5DE4F996@mindspring.com> <20011213051012.Y56723-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <3C186381.6AB07090@yahoo.com> <3C1875D6.5DE4F996@mindspring.com> <3C186381.6AB07090@yahoo.com> <20011214122837.O3448@monorchid.lemis.com> <3C19807D.C441F084@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20011214175450.02da2a90@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011214175450.02da2a90@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 14 December 2001 at 17:58:44 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 05:02 PM 12/14/2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> Correct. But there's this funny agreement that loading modules falls >> under the LGPL, not the GPL. > > Linux is licensed under a variant of the GPL that allows the linking > of modules and libraries that are not GPLed. This does not apply at > all to this case, in which the module WOULD be GPLed. It's a similar situation. Whom should I ask for confirmation? > There should NEVER be any GPLed kernel module for FreeBSD. As far as > I'm concerned, IBM wrote off any chance of having JFS ported to > anything other than Linux when it GPLed it. It was a horrible > decision. We have GPLd kernel modules now. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message