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Re: JFS

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 06:14:58AM +0000, Jack J. Woehr wrote:
> It appears to me that the Berkeley-style license is advantageous for an
> operating system, while the GPL-style license can be advantageous for
> certain applications.
> 
> In the case of IBM's GPL'e Journalling File System, I can see the GPL's
> appeal. It allows IBM to release their code and keep, effectively, a bit more
> control over it, preventing it from being modifed, re-issued closed by their
> competitors (accompanied by an ironic tip of the hat to IBM) and used to
> compete with them.
> 
> So both seem to have their place in the bazaar.

I don't understand this.  If someone wanted to, they could look at the code
written, say 'oh, thats how you do it', aka use it as documentation and write
another entirely different code base that has no problems  .. because you're
not creating a derivative work, you're creating an original work based on
information from various 'sources' as it were.

Hence, http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/ufs/ext2fs ...

Therefore, IBM's choice of GPL doesn't dis-allow competition from using it.
In fact, if they release their modifications to IBM, they can use it anyway.

Like I said in the first place, I believe they jumped the GPL bandwagon, which
afaikt means Hurd or Linux.

-- 
Todd Fries .. todd@fries.net