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Date:      Wed, 2 Jul 2003 17:18:11 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Zhihui Zhang <bf20761@binghamton.edu>
Cc:        Eivind Hestnes <eivind.hestnes@stabbursmoen.no>
Subject:   Re: Support for XFS in FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20030702221811.GA63041@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.L4.44.0307021755010.19151-100000@bingsun2.cc.binghamton.edu>
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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



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