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Date:      Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:05:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Pat Barron <pat@transarc.ibm.com>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AFS.
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000830135341.17778D-100000@smithfield.transarc.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000830134537.13906A-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Robert Watson wrote:
> Yup, there's been chatter on this in a number of forums.  I must admit
> that I am very please -- the Arla client is great, but Milko has a long
> way to go before it is production quality.  Having access to the
> Transarc/IBM source will presumably greatly facilitate the development of
> Arla, and also allow use of the IBM code in the mean time (Arla is under a
> liberal BSD-style license, whereas I would guess the IBM code will be
> under something like the Netscape license?).  In any case, once the code
> is out there, I'd be glad to participate in getting it running on FreeBSD.
> We may be able to leverage existing work by the Arla folk on rx and lwp to
> do that.

The code will be offered under the "IBM Public License".  You can find the
license on the web site
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource
along with some other info about the availability of open-source AFS.

DISCLAIMER:  While I work for IBM and also happen to be at Transarc, I
   have nothing at all to do with AFS.  So don't ask me, I didn't do it...
   :-)




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