From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o4JE17Ag133677 for ; Wed, 19 May 2010 09:01:08 -0500 Received: from greer.hardwarefreak.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 47667156CBC8 for ; Wed, 19 May 2010 07:04:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from greer.hardwarefreak.com (mo-65-41-216-221.sta.embarqhsd.net [65.41.216.221]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id ZckiA8Dg4nXhvz8i for ; Wed, 19 May 2010 07:04:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.100.53] (gffx.hardwarefreak.com [192.168.100.53]) by greer.hardwarefreak.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 487936C24C for ; Wed, 19 May 2010 09:03:25 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4BF3EFBD.7080808@hardwarefreak.com> Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 09:03:41 -0500 From: Stan Hoeppner MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: mounting hixfs (Hitachi "tuned" XFS) on 2.6 kernel References: <4BF1EC44.7070803@hardwarefreak.com> <4BF219A6.4010900@hardwarefreak.com> <1274201857.17233.144.camel@montana.filmlight.ltd.uk> <4BF366C9.9050300@hardwarefreak.com> <4BF3ED40.20609@sandeen.net> In-Reply-To: <4BF3ED40.20609@sandeen.net> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: xfs@oss.sgi.com Eric Sandeen put forth on 5/19/2010 8:53 AM: >> The GNU GPL does not give users permission to attach other licenses to the >> program. But the copyright holder for a program can release it under several >> different licenses in parallel. One of them may be the GNU GPL. I admit my ignorance. I was under the impression the GPL forbade a copyright holder from releasing under parallel licenses if the GPL was one of them. Thank you for educating me Eric. It seems posts are made weekly to various lists that the reason ZFS can't/won't be included in Linux is because the Open Solaris license is incompatible with the GPL. According to what you posted, there's nothing stopping Oracle from releasing the ZFS source under multiple licenses concurrently, including the GPL. So I guess the "conventional wisdom" argument relating to Linux+GPL+ZFS is false. The reasons are "other". > (hoping the thread doesn't dissolve into a giant gpl speculation > thread, having just fueled it further...) Nah. This will be my only comment on it. I rarely swim in the GPL pool as I'm not a dev. Hence my ignorance. :( Again thanks for the education. -- Stan _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs