Hans
linker@nightshade.ml.org wrote:
>
> I'de like to clairfy Hans' comment a bit.. (I hope you dont mind, please
> correct me if I'm wrong)
>
> 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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