From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 27 14:33:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98A8A37B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:33:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rdslink.ro (mail.rdslink.ro [193.231.236.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D80843F3F for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:33:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from enache@rdslink.ro) Received: (qmail 2742 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2003 22:32:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ratsnest.hole) (81.196.245.228) by mail.rdslink.ro with SMTP; 27 Jan 2003 22:32:38 -0000 Received: from ratsnest.hole (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ratsnest.hole (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h0RMeDv0001107; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 00:40:13 +0200 Received: (from adi@localhost) by ratsnest.hole (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id h0RMeC6V001105; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 00:40:12 +0200 Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 00:40:12 +0200 From: Enache Adrian To: Steve Kargl Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: add ext2fs to the module list in modules/Makefile Message-ID: <20030127224012.GB903@ratsnest.hole> References: <20030127211441.GC1043@ratsnest.hole> <20030127213635.GA30541@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030127213635.GA30541@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 01:36:35PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > Portions of the ext2fs source are covered by the GPL. You > need to rebuild the kernel with "option EXT2FS". The > FreeBSD cannot create a ext2fs.ko and comply with the GPL. This is weird. Builting it as part of kernel is ok, but separate, as a module isn't. However, FreeBSD builds by default (as modules) the maestro3 sound driver and the gnu fpu emulator which are GPL too. Regards Adi > -- > Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message