Re: SGI's XFS DONATED AS OPEN SOURCE!!!!!!!!!

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Tue, 1 Jun 1999 01:14:24 +0100 (BST)


Hi,

On Thu, 27 May 1999 12:35:24 -0500 (CDT), Jim Mostek <mostek@sgi.com>
said:

> SGI is doing some page cache/buffer cache internally to support
> XFS. As far as I know, this will be part of the Open Source'ing (I haven't
> heard differently).

Any work done on the core of the kernel will have to be released under
GPL or not at all --- the GPL doesn't give you the choice.

--Stephen

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