Juha Saarinen wrote:
> I've noticed that there's some interest from the FreeBSD crowd in XFS.
> But, they don't like the GPL... would SGI consider using a BSD-style
> license instead?
I explored this as one point and got nowhere with it.
There are two problems
One finding a license that the BSD folks can live
with and at the same time prevent SGI's competitors from shipping
XFS with their systems (ie SUN).
Two finding anybody in SGI management that actually wants
XFS on BSD to happen and thus willing to commit resources to
writing a "dual" licensee.
I have also talked with the BSD folks a bit and from a non commercial
there is no reason why XFS cannot live on the free BSDs as an
entity, ie loadable kernel module.