Moshe Bar wrote:
> Dear Russel
>
> any thanks for writing. xfs might be ready for download, but it's still full
> of proprietary code with licencing restrictions.
Err I'm not sure where you are getting your information but
XFS is fully GPL'ed, released, and getting closer to stable every day.
>
>
> In my personal view sgi is not doing enough to aggressively open up xfs to
> the OpenSource community.
I would really like to understand what you feel SGI has failed to do in
terms of opening up XFS to the public.
The bell has rung, there is nothing SGI can do to unrelease the source code.
And more over SGI spent a great deal of money on lawyers and technical people
to do a full encumbrance review the XFS source code to ensure no AT&T (or
anybody
else) copyrights were violated.
Obviously there has been some mis communication, I think I would be in our
best interest to start clearing up some misconceptions that seem to have
propagated amounts the OpenSource community.
Include is the XFS copyright.
/*
* Copyright (c) 2000 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
* under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as
* published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it would be useful, but
* WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
*
* Further, this software is distributed without any warranty that it is
* free of the rightful claim of any third person regarding infringement
* or the like. Any license provided herein, whether implied or
* otherwise, applies only to this software file. Patent licenses, if
* any, provided herein do not apply to combinations of this program with
* other software, or any other product whatsoever.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
* with this program; if not, write the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59
* Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston MA 02111-1307, USA.
*
* Contact information: Silicon Graphics, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy,
* Mountain View, CA 94043, or:
*
* http://www.sgi.com
*
* For further information regarding this notice, see:
*
* http://oss.sgi.com/projects/GenInfo/SGIGPLNoticeExplan/
*/
>
>
> In the case of JFS, IBM is making true investements and efforts to give all
> of jfs to the public. It has in fact made all of jfs OpenSource.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Moshe Bar
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cattelan@xxxxxxx [mailto:cattelan@xxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Russell
> > Cattelan
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 2:30 AM
> > To: moshe@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Linux XFS.
> >
> >
> > Perhaps you missed this little bit of info.
> >
> > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/news.html
> >
> > XFS for linux has been officially available since March 30th.
> >
> > And we are getting to close to declaring our first BETA release. (no
> > firm date yet).
> >
> > -Russell Cattelan
> >
> >
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