Russell Cattelan wrote:
> Actually that had to do with the de-encumbering process, i.e. trying
> to figure out which pieces of code might be bound up with license
> agreements
> SGI signed at one point.
> Since that part is already done the issue is mostly the wording of a new
> license.
Sure, but there would almost certainly be more money spent on many
lawyer-hours to determine whether that new license was acceptable...
I did not mean that SGI would be against XFS on BSD, it's just that it
would likely cost a fair amount of money and time to do it, and there
would be risks involved, and you have to find a motivation to do it.
Perhaps goodwill would be enough, but it might be hard to justify.
Ok, I'm done with the licensing discussion on-list, these things can go
on forever. I have trees to merge. :)
-Eric
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Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
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