From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 18:56:22 2004 Return-Path: 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 644E116A4CE for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:56:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mallaury.noc.nerim.net (smtp-103-wednesday.noc.nerim.net [62.4.17.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E501043D1D for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:56:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jspedron@club-internet.fr) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (dumbbell.net1.nerim.net [80.65.225.171]) by mallaury.noc.nerim.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5488762DF5; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:56:18 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4176B54C.8050902@club-internet.fr> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:58:20 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-S=E9bastien_P=E9dron?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041013) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Linimon References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: Kalev Lember cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Read-only ReiserFS support for FreeBSD 5.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:56:22 -0000 Mark Linimon wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote: > >>If ReiserFS should be integrated to FreeBSD, a rewrite would be a >>good thing > > If I understand correctly, it would not be as much a 'good thing' as > 'mandatory'. This is because, if FreeBSD incorporates any GPLed > software in the kernel, then the whole kernel immediately falls > under the GPL. And this is not something the Project wants to do. > > Or am I misunderstaning something? It can go in src/sys/gnu, like ext2. -- Jean-Sébastien Pédron http://www.dumbbell-fr.net/