Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 10:46:52 +0100
From: Matt Gumbley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Weekly News reported (http://lwn.net/980514/) that Theodore's
resize2fs would eventually be made available under the GPL:
http://lwn.net/lwn/980514/a/resizefs.html and
http://lwn.net/lwn/980514/a/resizefs2.html
Theodore, could you let us know when the source will be released? (How
long a delay did PowerQuest want?)
It was 18 months from "final acceptance", although when that happened is
a little squishy. I'm looking to get that clarified, but basically, it
means that would become available sometime during 1st quarter 2000. In
retrospect, I should have asked for a much smaller delay; given
"developing on Internet time", two years == infinity. Something like a
9 month delay would have been much more appropriate. Oh, well.... Live
and learn.
I'm currently looking into whether or not PowerQuest could be pursuaded
into releasing it earlier. The fact that a project is underway to
replicate the work should be pretty good leverage, for which I have to
thank Lennert Buytenhek. In the meantime, if you've purchased Partition
Magic 4.0 and can't find it on your CD-ROM, could you please send me
e-mail? A i386 RPM containing the Linux binary was *supposed* to have
been included on the CD-ROM.
- Ted
