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Re: JFS

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Hannah Schroeter wrote:

 | >     http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/jfs/
 | 
 | One thought: It's under GPL, so potentially "infecting" towards
 | all the rest of the kernel sources.

The i386 kernel can contain GPL'ed code depending on how you compile it.

This code resides under a separate directory so that it is clear and obvious
to anyone using it that they need to follow different rules.

Also, this code is completely optional.  The GPL'ed 80387 fpu emulator can be
replaced with a BSD-licensed one.  But the option is there for both because
the GPL'ed one has more features.

I think that if someone wanted to port one of these GPL'ed filesystems, I
don't see why it couldn't be part of /usr/src/sys/gnu.  Assuming that the FS
provides significant advantages over ffs, people may actually use it.

-chris