Hi, It seems that jfsutils is not actively developed. The last version was published in 2011. Is this package will be further developed?
I also have two questions relating to license. I want to build support for JFS in lua language. This will allow to interactively work at a low level with JFS (eg. better debugging and testing). The problem is that lua is released under the MIT license, and jfsutils under the GPL. Is it possible to write such tool without breaking the GPL. I'm afraid that GPL will in this case too restrictive. I would also build basic support for JFS (mkfs.jsf and fsck.jfs) in the toybox (http://www.landley.net/toybox/). I am afraid that such support for JFS can be very difficult to implement, because toybox is published under the BSD license. Is it necessary to rewrite the whole JFS functionality from scratch, so as not to violate the GPL? Is it possible to publish jfsutils on a more liberal license (MIT, BSD)? Currently, JFS can not compete with XFS, and without good support for this filesystem JFS will become increasingly marginalized. Best regards, Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list Jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
