Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 01 Jun 1999 02:59:05 -0700 | From | Dan Koren <> | Subject | Re: SGI's XFS DONATED AS OPEN SOURCE!!!!!!!!! |
| |
"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, 27 May 1999 12:35:24 -0500 (CDT), Jim Mostek <mostek@sgi.com> > said: > > > SGI is doing some page cache/buffer cache internally to support > > XFS. As far as I know, this will be part of the Open Source'ing > > (I haven't heard differently). > > Any work done on the core of the kernel will have to be released > under GPL or not at all --- the GPL doesn't give you the choice. > > --Stephen
All the development that SGI is doing on the Linux kernel will be released under GPL, and that includes page cache and buffer cache changes we might be making for XFS. Note however that XFS itself is not part of the kernel but rather a loadable module. The terms of the XFS license are still being reviewed by our legal staff.
thx,
Dan Koren Dan.Koren@sgi.com Engineering Manager, File Systems phone: (USA) 650-933-3678 Silicon Graphics, Inc. pager: (USA) 888-769-0874 1600 Amphiteatre Pkwy. M/S 08U-500 or dkoren_p@pager.sgi.com Mountain View, CA 94043-1351 fax: (USA) 650-933-3542
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |