Peter Jeremy <peter.jer...@alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:
> On 2010-Jun-11 17:41:38 +0800, Joerg Schilling
> <joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> >PP.S.: Did you know that FreeBSD _includes_ the GPLd Reiserfs in the FreeBSD
> >kernel since a while and that nobody did complain about this, see e.g.:
> >
> >http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/sys/gnu/fs/reiserfs/
>
> That is completely irrelevant and somewhat misleading. FreeBSD has
> never prohibited non-BSD-licensed code in their kernel or userland
> however it has always been optional and, AFAIR, the GENERIC kernel has
> always defaulted to only contain BSD code. Non-BSD code (whether GPL
> or CDDL) is carefully segregated (note the 'gnu' in the above URI).
Sorry but your reply is completely misleading as the people who claim that
there is a legal problem with having ZFS in the Linux kernel would of course
also claim that Reiserfs cannot be in the FreeBSD kernel.
Jörg
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