Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 17:13:35 -0700 From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu>, Hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite Message-ID: <37B6062F.EE00CC94@gorean.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908141221230.57420-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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"Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, James Howard wrote: > > > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > It doesn't work like that; once it's been distributed with Linux it's > > > no longer BSD-licensed, it's GPLed. They would still be unable to > > > recover post-viral changes and reuse them in their own XFS product. > > > > I heard somewhere that Linux was released under a slightly modified GPL to > > permit the inclusion of BSD code. I assumed they did this to steal the IP > > stack. > > Most likely. s/steal/use/. We can't champion the BSD (read, "Use this code for whatever you want") license then cast aspersions at people who use it for things we don't like. Let's at least be logically consistent. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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