From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 26 22:02:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C485616A420; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:02:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from babkin@verizon.net) Received: from vms044pub.verizon.net (vms044pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7808543D45; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:02:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from babkin@verizon.net) Received: from verizon.net ([141.153.249.11]) by vms044.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0IVB0007QEJCY6J3@vms044.mailsrvcs.net>; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 16:02:04 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:02:00 -0500 From: Sergey Babkin Sender: root To: jkh@freebsd.org Message-id: <44022558.460E1BA1@verizon.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE i386) Content-type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en, ru References: <12424860.1139921265521.JavaMail.root@vms169.mailsrvcs.net> <20060224193521.GA24121@samodelkin.net> <20060224213007.6x6dqzo4gw0sw0cg@webmail.spamcop.net> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, babkin@users.sf.net, Gilbert Fernandes , Max Khon Subject: Jordan, can you please comment? Re: [off-topic] NTFS, Apple and GPL vs LGPL (Was : NTFS write support) X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: babkin@users.sf.net List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:02:04 -0000 Gilbert Fernandes wrote: > > In November, Apple has again tried to hijack Linux-NTFS code, this time by > suggesting {http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=13769046} > that it be licensed under the LGPL. This was promptly rejected by one main > developer, who threatened lawsuits. > > ----8>----8>----8>----8>----8>----8>----8> > > It is thus highly probable that Apple would like to see a BSD-based > implementation of NTFS. They asked twice the GPL-based project to adopt a > dual-licence so they (Apple) would be able to integrate this into MacOS X. > > Perhaps Apple would agree to give some support for the BSD-licence based > work ? Hm, we should probably ask Jordan Hubbard to comment on this. -SB