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Date:      Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:38:34 -0800
From:      Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>
Cc:        Enache Adrian <enache@rdslink.ro>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: add ext2fs to the module list in modules/Makefile
Message-ID:  <20030127153830.A6348@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030128052915.B75252@iclub.nsu.ru>; from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru on Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:29:15AM %2B0600
References:  <20030127211441.GC1043@ratsnest.hole> <20030127213635.GA30541@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20030127224012.GB903@ratsnest.hole> <20030128052915.B75252@iclub.nsu.ru>

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* De: Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru> [ Data: 2003-01-27 ]
	[ Subjecte: Re: add ext2fs to the module list in modules/Makefile ]
> hi, there!
> 
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:40:12AM +0200, 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.
> 
> IIRC NetBSD has BSD-copyrighted ext2fs implementation

Closely tied to their VFS implementation, which is different, of course,
last I heard it was a fairly heavy task to port it, but something a lot
of people would like to see.

juli.
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