> On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 19:49:10 -0400 (EDT)
> James Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I did, they have a feedback form I filled out yesterday. I mentioned that
> > and that if they dual licensed the code, it could be used by the entire
> > free software community, not just the hip Linux crowd and also mentioned
> > that a great many in the BSD community are interested in the code. Of
> > course, I phrased it more professionally.
>
> The thing is, they don't have to dual license it for it to be usable
> by both Linux and BSD!
>
> Including BSD-licensed code in Linux is prefectly legitimate, and in
> fact, there is already such code in Linux now.
>
> So, if they were to simply put a BSD license on the code, then everyone
> would be happy, and there wouldn't be any of the dual-license confusion.
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.
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