On Sunday, 8 July 2001 at 20:47:53 -0500, Dave Uhring wrote:
> On Sunday 08 July 2001 19:32, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
>
>>
>> This "virus-like" aspect of the GPL is also very loudly explained in
>> a 12-page presentation distributed internally to all developers at
>> IBM. (The virus-like aspect is a big deal. If someone accidentally
>> *statically* linked a piece of GPL'd object code, such as GNU
>> getopt(), into a major product such as DB2 EEE for Linux, then they
>> would be forced to open the code to DB2. That would not be a very
>> profitable move for IBM.)
>>
>> The problem for me (as a developer who would love to port XFS to
>> FreeBSD, but by being employed by IBM, cannot), is that IBM would
>> have IP rights over any changes that I would have to submit back to
>> SGI in order to make XFS work on FreeBSD. For IBM to release that
>> code under the GPL, SGI would have to work with IBM and come to an
>> agreement (which would involve all of the IP laywers from the two
>> firms battling it out). Since this process would take months and a
>> pile of cash, FreeBSD would never see XFS.
>>
>> Sad, but true. Maybe I need to switch companies :)
>
> No need to switch companies over something like this. Fix up JFS for
> FreeBSD :-) and stay with IBM.
As I've said on the correct group (FreeBSD-fs), if anybody wants to
port JFS to FreeBSD, please contact me.
Greg
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