From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 2 15:18:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBBE237B401 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:18:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3AFA43FAF for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:18:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h62MIBg5084027; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 17:18:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 17:18:11 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Zhihui Zhang Message-ID: <20030702221811.GA63041@dan.emsphone.com> References: <178286422.1057139826@melange.errno.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: Sam Leffler cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Eivind Hestnes Subject: Re: Support for XFS in FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 22:18:44 -0000 In the last episode (Jul 02), Zhihui Zhang said: > Suppose someone ported XFS to FreeBSD, then what liscence can you use > without causing any legal trouble? You must use GNU, but the interface > code (VFS/vnode, bio, vnode, etc.) are already under BSD liscence. Can > one KLD program contain code using different liscences? Sure. See /sys/gnu/ext2fs/ for an example, and see the COPYRIGHT.INFO file for an explanation of which files have what license. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com