From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id OAA00061; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 14:52:45 -0700 Return-Path: Received: by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950511.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH526/911001.SGI) for linux-list id OAA16120; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 14:52:30 -0700 Received: from neteng.engr.sgi.com by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com via ESMTP (950511.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH526/911001.SGI) for id OAA16115; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 14:52:29 -0700 Received: (from lm@localhost) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id OAA29927 for linux; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 14:52:28 -0700 Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 14:52:28 -0700 From: lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) Message-Id: <199604192152.OAA29927@neteng.engr.sgi.com> To: linux@neteng.engr.sgi.com Subject: Good news Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Hi- as some of you know, we've been negociating to get David Miller, the Sparc/Linux guy, to come out and work on a MIPS/Linux port. He has accepted, he starts on May 25th, and will be here until August 25th. We had to do a lot of work with the laywers, but we have agreement that all of the work that he does here will be a) owned by SGI (we paid for it), and b) distributed under the terms of the GPL. No exceptions. SGI owns the code so we can choose to use anything that turns out to be interesting inside IRIX without the constraints of the GPL (you may or may not be aware that the owner of the code can choose to distribute the code under multiple copyrights - so we can use stuff in IRIX without "polluting" the IRIX kernel with the GPL). I'd like to thank everyone that has been pulling for this, and especially Greg Chesson who did the hard work of getting the contract hammered out to the satisfaction of SGI & David. We are currently in the process of figuring out what code we can use to help with the port; there may be parts of the setup OS that are both appropriate and useful. Ariel and others are working to get a development machine set up in the engr domain. It will be linux.engr.sgi.com, and should be up and running on Monday or Tuesday. I'll keep you posted on new news as it happens. --lm --- Larry McVoy lm@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/lm (415) 933-1804 Copyright 1996, all rights reserved. Microsoft Network is prohibited from redistributing this work in any form, in whole or in part without license. License to distribute this work is available to Microsoft at $500. Transmission without permission constitutes an agreement to these terms.