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From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:48:03
Message-Id: 492bd7df.KB64rCzpNqXDVQjQ%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems by "»Q«"
1 »Q« <boxcars@×××.net> wrote:
2
3 > Also, no one reading it would learn anything more than they could have
4 > by googling a little while. All the arguments about whether copyleft is
5 > more or less freedomish than non-copyleft are already out there for
6 > anyone who wants to read them.
7
8 Speaking about the filesystems, the GPL limits the freedom to use the code and
9 for this reason, brtfs cannot be used by Solaris, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, .....
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11 As a rule of thumb: of you like to widely spread an implementation don't
12 license it under GPL.
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14 Jörg
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>