Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 22:33:15 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Garance A Drosehn <drosehn@goti.net> Cc: Ustimenko Semen <semen@iclub.nsu.ru>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Nt source licenses... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990515223040.2241T-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <v04020a00b3622aef38d4@[192.168.1.12]>
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On Fri, 14 May 1999, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > At 3:51 PM +0700 5/12/99, Ustimenko Semen wrote: > > Are we going to get this license? I am interested in NTFS > > source code a lot... > > I would be very careful about getting an NT source license if > your intention is to write NTFS support for some other operating > system. Microsoft is not doing this licensing for the benefit of > mankind, they are doing it to attract college-type users to > sticking with WinNT over open-source unixes. > > The last thing we need is some code from WinNT which causes us > to be sued by Microsoft... > It would probably be very unwise for the project to get get the licence. However, considering that we support loadable filesystem modules, somebody adventurous enough can get the licence and write a (separate distributed, possibly even only as binary) module. Downloading a kld module from the net definately does not "taint" your mind. > --- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA > Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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