linux-ext4 - Re: Using parts of ext2_fs.h in BSD licensed code

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Date:	Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:26:16 +0300
From:	Evgeniy Ivanov <lolkaantimat@...il.com>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using parts of ext2_fs.h in BSD licensed code

Just found, that recently FreeBSD got this:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/fs/ext2fs/ext2fs.h
It looks like I can easily include it to the BSD-licensed project and
no GPL violation. But I dunno how did they wrote ext2fs.h, since it
still must be based on ext2_fs.h

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Evgeniy Ivanov <lolkaantimat@...il.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm working on ext2 implementation for Minix3, where BSD license is
> desirable (AFAIK folks from *BSD are interested too). Most things are
> already implemented, while working I looked through linux and hurd
> implementations, but didn't use anything from there (I just learned
> some internals of ext2) and read http://nongnu.org/ext2-doc/ (thus my
> implementation mostly based on ext2-doc).
> Flags, constants, data structures are available in ext2-doc and
> ext2_fs.h. As I understand GPL license I can't just take it from
> ext2_fs.h and use in BSD licensed code, since it violates GPL (it was
> confirmed on #gnu). Is it correct? From another hand code based on
> ext2-doc can't be called derivative work. Is there any other header
> similar to ext2_fs.h (or any documentation except
> nongnu.org/ext2-doc/)?
>
> Do you think I can ask copyright owners for permission to use
> constants(data structures) from ext2_fs.h? Can somebody please send me
> Remy Card's email (in sources it's incorrect)?
>
> --
> Evgeniy Ivanov
>



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Evgeniy Ivanov
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