From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay2.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.29]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7792E7F6A for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2013 10:39:42 -0600 (CST) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by relay2.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE97304032 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2013 08:39:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from sandeen.net (sandeen.net [63.231.237.45]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id 5nij3PXjH75KdHZc for ; Mon, 09 Dec 2013 08:39:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <52A5F249.1060505@sandeen.net> Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 10:39:37 -0600 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: XFS...Windows? References: <000001cef46c$ab687cc0$02397640$@mail.com> In-Reply-To: <000001cef46c$ab687cc0$02397640$@mail.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Yuji Saeki , xfs@oss.sgi.com On 12/8/13, 5:24 PM, Yuji Saeki wrote: > Congratulations on your file system, it=92s quite nice. I=92ve > benchmarked it myself, it=92s very impressive. I=92m 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 =91GNU > Lesser General Public License=92 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 =91no-warranty implied=92 (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=92re 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. :) -Eric _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs