From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 15 12:34:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81DA414C9E for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 12:34:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (haldjas.folklore.ee [172.17.2.1] (may be forged)) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.8/8.8.4) with SMTP id WAA16948; Sat, 15 May 1999 22:33:15 +0300 (EEST) Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 22:33:15 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi To: Garance A Drosehn Cc: Ustimenko Semen , Luigi Rizzo , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Nt source licenses... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 14 May 1999, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > At 3:51 PM +0700 5/12/99, Ustimenko Semen wrote: > > Are we going to get this license? I am interested in NTFS > > source code a lot... > > I would be very careful about getting an NT source license if > your intention is to write NTFS support for some other operating > system. Microsoft is not doing this licensing for the benefit of > mankind, they are doing it to attract college-type users to > sticking with WinNT over open-source unixes. > > The last thing we need is some code from WinNT which causes us > to be sued by Microsoft... > It would probably be very unwise for the project to get get the licence. However, considering that we support loadable filesystem modules, somebody adventurous enough can get the licence and write a (separate distributed, possibly even only as binary) module. Downloading a kld module from the net definately does not "taint" your mind. > --- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA > Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message