Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:44:43 +0300 From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> To: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>, Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU>, Parity Error <bootup@mail.ru>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com Subject: Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: metadata update durability ordering/soft updates Message-ID: <3C96D04B.6060201@namesys.com> References: <20020318195817.26106.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hiten Pandya wrote: >--- Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> wrote: > >>Hiten Pandya wrote: >>I actually don't understand the remark about needing to pay me >>royalties. If you leave the GPL on the code, and don't violate the GPL >>by integrating it with non-GPL compatible code, you don't need to pay >>me. You can probably talk me into granting waivers on trivially >>incompatible with the GPL licenses. Where you need to pay me is when >>you want someone (yourself or MS or anyone....) to be able to add to >>BDS+ReiserFS without making their additions free. >> > >I think I get your point (after all this time 8-)). If someone ports >ReiserFS >to FreeBSD, there will be no fee; but if someone makes additions to ReiserFS, >than they have to pay you for logical business reasons, am I right? > If they make non-free additions to reiserfs, or to a kernel that reiserfs is a part of. > > >Apart from that, there would be no issue in porting ReiserFS to FreeBSD. One >more question, if the booting part of ReiserFS was re-written in the BSD >License, would there be any issues still existing? :-) > >Also, I think I also made a clear fact of the Ext2FS code in FreeBSD. How >do you think ReiserFS would do in similar situations?, which type of license >does SuSE use? :) > What license is there on that ext2fs code in FreeBSD, is it GPL or other? > > >[ PS. I am asking the above question in manner which would be clear to >everyone, so this can be archived and refered to in the future, if these >kinds of question arise again. Thanks ] > >Regards, > > -- Hiten > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage >http://sports.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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