From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 8 09:21:20 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA14762 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 09:21:20 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA14750 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 09:21:10 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id SAA15122 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 18:21:07 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA01233 for hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 18:21:06 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA13161 for hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 15:05:39 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509081305.PAA13161@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FTAPE port to FreeBSD To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 15:05:38 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Jake Hamby" at Sep 8, 95 01:15:56 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1184 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jake Hamby wrote: > > > > At any rate, the problem is that nobody on the FreeBSD team cares much > > > about QIC-80 tape support, in fact they feel that QIC-117 is > > > fundamentally broken. > > > > It's not 100% reliable, but broken ? It's not broken -- but heh, what shall i say, it sort-of "sucks". (What i'd like to say is that the design is br***dead, not e.g. the Linux implementation.) > > > Since it's > > > copyrighted under GPL, it would sit in the special gnu/ directory of the > > > kernel to signify its GNU status. Any objections? Anyone else working > > > on porting FTAPE to other Unixes? > > > > To answer your questions: 1) Certainly not ... But you are aware of the fact that GPL'ed code won't go into the GENERIC kernel, are you? Can you perhaps try to convince the Linux guy to bless your derived work (not necessarily the original Linux driver) under a BSD copyright? Since he's the author, it would be in his power to do this. Otherwise, the driver would not be there on the installation floppy. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)