Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

[James Howard]

On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote:

> It doesn't work like that; once it's been distributed with Linux it's 
> no longer BSD-licensed, it's GPLed.  They would still be unable to 
> recover post-viral changes and reuse them in their own XFS product.

I heard somewhere that Linux was released under a slightly modified GPL to
permit the inclusion of BSD code.  I assumed they did this to steal the IP
stack.

Would it be legal to strip the BSD license of say, inetd and put a GPL on
it?  Many in the Linux community seem to think this is true but I thought
that'd be just as bad as my BSD licensed GCC distribution :)

Jamie



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