Re: building a free AFS client

[Garrett D'Amore]

I think that the protocols themselves are probably considered proprietary
unless they have been released by transarc.  Any specs would have to have
their blessing at least, I would think.

        -- Garrett.

On Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:47:12 -0400  Mitch Collinsworth wrote:

> 
> ... an interesting discussion.
> 
> >The truly hard part is not really a technical issue at all.  Those of
> >us who know enough to do a free client wouldn't be able to, because most
> >of us have AFS source access, which would make it hard to claim that
> >the new client had been written without reading and/or using Transarc's
> >code...
> 
> right.  However what if someone knowledgeable were to simply document
> the protocols and interfaces and then someone at another site were to
> write new code from that document?  Would the result still be
> considered tainted?
> 
> -Mitch
>