There is some interest in the BSD community to work on porting the XFS
filesystem to the BSD platform (primarily for the sgimips port of NetBSD).
However, there are licensing issues related with that. BSD and its
derivatives are licensed with a BSD licence (not suprisingly) and the
Linux-XFS source code is licensed under the GPL.
If a BSD port of XFS was to be integrated into the BSD kernel (NetBSD, in
this case), then the source code would have to be relicensed for that use.
Is this possible, and if so, how?
Thanks.
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Ian Cooper
ian@xxxxxxx
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Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 16:48:03 +0000
From: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Steve Rikli <sr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: port-sgimips@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: XFS and NetBSD [was Re: News & Installation ideas]
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 09:39:33AM -0700, Steve Rikli wrote:
> IIRC though, from reading freebsd-fs et al, there *may* be outstanding
> src license issues -- i.e. I believe SGI released XFS src under GPL.
> The discussion I read in the newsgroups seemed to indicate that might
> be a bit of a tangle in porting to *BSD .
What I've heard WRT this is that if someone actually ports it to *BSD SGI
would be willing to relicense as long as their lawyers okay'd it... This
of course hearsay, but I've heard it from a number of sources, if that
helps any.
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