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Re: Interest from the FreeBSD camp

To: james rich <james.rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Interest from the FreeBSD camp
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 19:48:22 +0200
Cc: "Nathan J. Mehl" <memory@xxxxxxxxx>, Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>, Juha Saarinen <juha@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10106131114130.26115-100000@pipt.oz.cc.utah.edu>; from james.rich@m.cc.utah.edu on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:19:53AM -0600
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On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:19:53AM -0600, james rich wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Nathan J. Mehl wrote:
> 
> > expect that if Sun thought they could gain some sort of competetive
> > advantage from shipping Solaris 9 with XFS, they'd simply go ahead and
> > do so with the existing GPL code.
> 
> Since XFS integrates with the OS they would have to GPL Solaris (I think)
> - not likely.

They already have a GPLed ext2fs-implementation, if you want to sue them
do it now.

        Christoph

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