It would have been more clearly stated: "ReiserFS is released under the
GPL. It is copyrighted by Hans. If you want to included the GPLed reiserfs
code in your gpled stuff (by the GPL if you unclude it you must be gpled)
then you can.. If you are Novell then Hans will gladly sell you a copy
under a diffecnt licence (along with programming services to make it work)
that doesn't force you to put your OS under the GPL."
On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Hans Reiser wrote:
> We will create a patch when we do our second beta for 2.1.latest. If we
> did a patch of our first beta, since that version modifies VFS in too
> many places,
> it would only work for patching 2.1.42, which no one uses anymore. Our
> second beta will have very few modifications of the VFS
> layer. End of month is the expected time of release.
>
> The license is GPL. We consider the FS to be integrated into the
> kernel, so if you want to use it on a non-GPL kernel, like say Solaris,
> you must pay me or convince me.
>
> We now have a mailing list containing those 30 names:
> reiserfs@devlinux.com
>
> Thanks for your welcome.
>
> Hans
>
> Pavel Machek wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > > I just subscribed to linux-kernel, I should have subscribed years
> > > ago
> >
> > Welcome. :-)
> >
> > > We hope to have our second beta ready for beta-release by the end of the
> > > month, and a fully released file system proven in its stability in
> > > June. Our second beta is able to copy the linux kernel, but it is not
> > > ready for release yet. Our previous beta reached the point where it
> > > required some effort to crash, but Linus made some remarks about our
> > > interface to VFS and how we should toss leashes, accurate remarks that
> > > required our scrapping a remarkable amount of code to fix (the code is
> > > much cleaner now as a result), and we improved it accordingly. The new
> > > dcache code looks like hot stuff to us, I am hoping it will improve our
> > > benchmarks further.
> >
> > I would like to ask:
> > 1) Is patch somewhere? [last time I checked, there was only whole
> > linux kernel]
> > 2) What is license? [last time I checked, it was something *very*
> > different from GPL]
> >
> > Pavel
> > PS: I would like to ask: What is the right way to ask this? I have
> > some 10-20 names in To: field, and that makes me feel a little bit
> > bad. Are that people subscribed on linux-kernel?
> >
> > Hmm. I'll strip that list.
> >
> > --
> > I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel
> > Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
> >
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