From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 27 14:54:14 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 BD17737B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:54:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D92643F75 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:54:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with SMTP id h0RMs5P4086535; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 17:54:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 17:54:05 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Enache Adrian Cc: Steve Kargl , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: add ext2fs to the module list in modules/Makefile In-Reply-To: <20030127224012.GB903@ratsnest.hole> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Enache Adrian wrote: > 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. That's not quite it. :-) You building it into the kernel is fine, we just can't do it and distribute it without putting the rest of the kernel under GPL. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message