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From: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
To: Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>
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Subject: Re: add ext2fs to the module list in modules/Makefile
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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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