From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 30 11: 5:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fw0.transarc.com (xfw.transarc.ibm.com [192.54.226.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DAF837B42C; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:05:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost2.transarc.ibm.com (mailhost2.transarc.ibm.com [9.38.192.125]) by fw0.transarc.com (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7/8.7) with ESMTP id NAA16306; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:41:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smithfield.transarc.ibm.com (smithfield.transarc.ibm.com [9.38.192.92]) by mailhost2.transarc.ibm.com (8.8.0/8.8.0) with SMTP id OAA03499; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:05:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:05:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Barron To: Robert Watson Cc: Thomas David Rivers , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AFS. 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 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... :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message