Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 11:45:11 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu>, Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9908141142320.11364-100000@rac9.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199908140446.VAA00418@dingo.cdrom.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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. Would it be legal to strip the BSD license of say, inetd and put a GPL on it? Many in the Linux community seem to think this is true but I thought that'd be just as bad as my BSD licensed GCC distribution :) Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.GSO.4.10.9908141142320.11364-100000>