On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 03:05:31PM -0500, Steven French wrote: > >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.
I talked to a few FreeBSD developers and I don't think this will be too much of a problem. They pointed me towards the GPL math emulator that can be compiled into the kernel and compiles with FreeBSD. When you are finished I will have them review this again to make sure having GPL in the kernel isn't a problem. If we can make this a kernel loadable module on FreeBSD, I don't see any problem at all though. -- David W. Chapman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net> [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org>
