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Re: JFS

At 3:30 AM +0000 2/3/00, Jack J. Woehr wrote:
>Have you filesys gurus seen
>
>    http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/jfs/
>
>Is this something the likes of which is likely to migrate to BSD?

Something "like this" would certainly be attractive, although the
licensing IBM went with is not as attractive.  I do not want to
prolong the debate over licensing, let's just say I (personally)
prefer the BSD-style licensing and leave it at that.

Given that position, which would be a waste of everyone's time to
debate yet again in this mailing list, my question is:

Has anyone contacted IBM to see if they would release it under
BOTH the GPL and the BSD-style artistic license?  Products like
Perl have handled licensing that way, perhaps IBM could be
persuaded to do the same.


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