Complex sentence: The file system was released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) in May 2000 and was ported to Linux by a team led by Steve Lord at SGI, while first support by a Linux distribution came in 2001.
Split into simpler sentences: The file system was released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) in May 2000. A team led by Steve Lord at SGI ported it to Linux, and first support by a Linux distribution came in 2001.