Juha Saarinen wrote:
>
> I've noticed that there's some interest from the FreeBSD crowd in XFS.
> But, they don't like the GPL... would SGI consider using a BSD-style
> license instead?
IANAL, nor do I represent SGI in any official capacity, but I don't
think SGI would be very interested in doing this. We (SGI) released XFS
to help make Linux a high class OS because we want to sell Linux on our
boxen and want a commodity OS.
But, if we could convince the powers that be, it may be possible to
release the code under a dual license, but then changes coming back
would be tricky to reincorporate. I highly doubt we will not stop the
GPL release of XFS because this would hinder the code from going into
the mainline kernel.
We already have a sticky situation when external people submit core xfs
patches back to us if we want to put that code into IRIX. What I think
the plana of action is to ask each patch maintainer if they would be
willing to sign away their copyright to SGI so the code can be stuck
into IRIX...I don't think this has come up yet since most of the major
development has taken place in house or from SGI contractors.
-tduffy
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