My own understanding is: 1. The plan to relicense GFS has been in the works for a while. 2. Sistina plans to generate revenue by selling licenses for GFS and related software, training, etc. Presumably, this will make the VC happy, as they feel a services oriented business wouldn't "scale." 3. Sistina currently has no intention of working to include GFS in the standard Linux kernel. They may have plans to port it to *BSD and/or NT, and the license change may be related to these plans. The above perceptions are based on conversations I had during the process of interviewing for a job at Sistina earlier this year. At the time, I was somewhat taken aback; the main reason I wanted to work there was because (I thought) it was an "open source" company. Joel On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 Clay Fandre wrote: > Ben, can you comment on this? What's the deal? > http://slashdot.org/articles/01/08/31/172200.shtml