Re: [tlug] JFS file system license

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com>]

On 27/10/08 08:53, Nguyen Vu Hung wrote:

> A short question regarding the JFS file sytem:
> It is licensed under GPL so if I use JFS as my file sytem
> and a program X on it, do I have to opensources the program X
>  when I pass the machine using it to the third parties?

Does your application X (I assume you don't mean the graphics subsystem X as
in X.org) link to the code managing the JFS filesystem? I wouldn't expect it
to get anywhere near it but leave those details to the kernel. In the same
way you don't have to GPL an application written and distributed on a system
using ext2/3.

BTW, please refrain from posting in HTML.

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