Re: reiser4 non-free?

[Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu>]

Sami Liedes <sliedes@cc.hut.fi> wrote:
> [Cc:'d to the reiser4progs maintainers. Please Cc: me when replying,
> I'm not subscribed to -legal.]
> 
> There has previously been discussion at least in April 2003 on this
> list about the freeness of reiserfs.
> 
> It seems a further "clarification" has been added to the license (GPL
> + clarifications) in both reiser4progs and kernel-patch-2.6-reiser4
> since then.

I agree that they make reiser4 non-free.  In addition, they make it
GPL-incompatible, so Debian won't be able to ship reiser4 even in
non-free.

Regards,
Walter Landry
wlandry@ucsd.edu