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Re: JFS

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 12:21:00PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> 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?
...
> 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.

According to one of my cow-orkers, IBM is releasing the "Postfix"
mailer under a non-GPL-ish liberalised license, so this solution might
be plausible.  I'm having trouble at the moment finding a reference on
the license, but if I find it I'll forward the URL. 

If it looks acceptable, maybe we could ask if they'd add that license
for their JFS and other Open Source projects.  The advantage is that
presumably it's already been cleared through their fleets of lawyers.
  -- Clifton

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