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Re: JFS

On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 09:47:35AM -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 06:33 PM 2/3/2000 , Chuck Gagnon wrote:
> 
> >I have not gotten a responce to my question about placing this code
> >under the IBM Public License or a more BSDish license yet.  I'll let
> >you know what their reply is.
> 
> They seem to be receptive to the idea, and may consider a Perl-like
> "dual licensing" scheme. (IBM has its own license, the IBM Public
> License, which is more like the BSD license than the GPL.)

They will not dual-license.  The current code-drop is already linux
and GPL infected, and cannot be dual licensed.  My conversations
with them indicated they were considering a second release of the
original codebase, without linuxisms, under a BSD friendly license.

> And IBM remembers -- or ought to -- where it got the TCP/IP stack
> for OS/2. Yes, it's from BSD.

People don't call them "Berkeley sockets" for nothin'.

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