From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L4vSd-0002cW-O9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:48:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A934CE0401; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:48:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from iron02.fraunhofer.de (iron02.fraunhofer.de [153.96.1.56]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 652AFE0401 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:48:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pluto.fokus.fraunhofer.de ([195.37.77.164]) by iron02.fraunhofer.de with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 25 Nov 2008 11:47:59 +0100 Received: from EXCHSRV.fokus.fraunhofer.de (bohr [10.147.9.231]) by pluto.fokus.fraunhofer.de (8.13.7/8.13.7) with SMTP id mAPAlxXU001130 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:47:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from rigel ([10.147.65.195]) by EXCHSRV.fokus.fraunhofer.de with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:47:59 +0100 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:47:59 +0100 From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems Message-ID: <492bd7df.KB64rCzpNqXDVQjQ%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <1227479490.26615.47.camel@rattus> <200811242315.55785.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <200811250056.23137.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200811250041.51896.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <20081124182213.56daa930@bellgrove.remarqs.net> In-Reply-To: <20081124182213.56daa930@bellgrove.remarqs.net> User-Agent: nail 11.22 3/20/05 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Nov 2008 10:47:59.0760 (UTC) FILETIME=[48831100:01C94EEB] Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 76dcc652-04b6-464b-956d-26464e28db4c X-Archives-Hash: 2d058f1928cf98cca7da6a691532cb02 =BBQ=AB wrote: > Also, no one reading it would learn anything more than they could have > by googling a little while. All the arguments about whether copyleft i= s > more or less freedomish than non-copyleft are already out there for > anyone who wants to read them.=20 Speaking about the filesystems, the GPL limits the freedom to use the cod= e and=20 for this reason, brtfs cannot be used by Solaris, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, ....= . As a rule of thumb: of you like to widely spread an implementation don't=20 license it under GPL. J=F6rg --=20 EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J=F6rg Schilling D-13353 = Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) =20 schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogs= pot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schil= y