Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 15:59:16 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: Garance A Drosehn <drosehn@goti.net>, 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.3.96.990515155702.26546n-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990515223040.2241T-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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On Sat, 15 May 1999, Narvi wrote: > > 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. I'm unsure what the fuss is over, don't we have a kld to read NTFS already? Is there really anything special about NT that we NEED to learn that hasn't been done _better_ by Sun, SGI or Digital? :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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