Re: reiser4 non-free?
Walter Landry wrote:
> The largest problem is that with the
> "clarification", you seem to have
> changed the license, making it slightly more
> restrictive than the
> plain old GPL. The combination of Reiser4 and the
> kernel triggers GPL
> Section 2. That means that Debian will not be able
> to distribute
> Reiser4 at all.
ReiserFS is heading down the same road as XFree86.
You won't get any recognition, Hans, if nobody is
using ReiserFS.
> If you changed the clarification to a request, then
> Debian would have
> no problems distributing it, even with the blurb.
There is still hope. Please do not make ReiserFS a
curious footnote in the history of Linux. It is far
too brilliant.
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