[humor] Re: XFS...Windows?

[Jeffrey Hundstad]

On 12/09/2013 10:39 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 12/8/13, 5:24 PM, Yuji Saeki wrote:
>> Congratulations on your file system, it’s quite nice. I’ve
>> benchmarked it myself, it’s very impressive. I’m curious though, is
>> there are thought to a Windows driver? If someone ported the most
>> current-stable version to Windows (free) under the same license ‘GNU
>> Lesser General Public License’ with entire credit to XFS
> XFS isn't under the LGPL, it's GPL, as is the rest of the kernel code,
> and the license terms should be quite clear.
>
>> would SGI
>> be okay with that? A ‘no-warranty implied’ (etc) kind of protection
>> of course. Quite a few devs that I work with enjoy the XFS filesystem
>> and we dev in both Linux and Windows. We’re very interested in making
>> this happen with respect to the XFS project.
> I'm not a lawyer, but it's not really an issue of opinion - it's a legal
> matter.  If you can port XFS to Windows while maintaining the terms
> of the license agreements on both ends, you're free to do so.
>
> The technical difficulty of such a task is another matter as well.  :)

<humor>
To keep it standards compliant with your new OS, you'd want to change it 
just a tiny bit to make it incompatible with the normal XFS, patent that 
bit and claim it's an industry standard.
</humor>