>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Allison) >On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 06:06:52AM +0930, Richard Sharpe wrote: >> >> Has it been checked on FreeBSD? If not, if you give me the source, I will > check it for you.
>It is GPL code. I don't think it can be used in the FreeBSD kernel >(correct me if I'm wrong Steve). > >Jeremy. I am not quite complete on the DFS support in the CIFS VFS but expect to finish that soon. I am debugging two more important problems at the moment a) not killing a captive thread on unmount, and b) (which is turning out to be harder) a problem displaying info on symbolic links created the Microsoft way ie with Microsoft "reparse points" There are still some big holes in it - not all of the code is endian neutral and it does not do locking yet although it does do some neat things like hardlinks to Windows servers. On the second question - the license, I am glad that David et al brought this up. I had wanted to allow the code (at worts the main smb PDU definitions and flags in the main headers) to be able to be reused in user space utilities and on other platforms but on Linux most kernel code is licensed as GPL (devfs is an exception and is LGPL). Currently the code that I wrote myself (the majority) is licensed LGPL. But there are some header files (for error mapping) from Samba which are GPL and three or four encryption routines that came from Samba that cause a few C files to be GPL. Steve French Senior Software Engineer Linux Technology Center - IBM Austin phone: 512-838-2294 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
