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Re: JFS

David Terrell wrote:
> 
> 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.

My accrual question to them was, would they consider licensing the 
reference code (before the linux port) under the IBM Public License.
They have said nothing definite yet, but I got the following:

 ! You know, we never considered licensing under dual licenses. We
looked at
 ! this from an either-or perspective. We'll take this request back and
think
 ! about it.

> 
> > 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'.