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 = g...@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
> Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable)
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
>
Sander
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