Ian Cooper a écrit :
> 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?
>
One of the nice things in GPL is that it does not allow SGI competitors to
steal
SGI's crown jewels unless they relinquish THEIR code jewels. With BSD
license
SGI could find its code has been used in say Solaris without Sun giving
anything
Another point is that if someone not from SGI contributed code to XFS then
SGI
would need either to get his agreement or to rewrite his code before thinking
in
relicensing.
JFM
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