Re: Microsoft DFS and the CIFS VFS

2002-05-30 Thread Simo Sorce
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 18:35, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > > There is a smbfs implementation in BSD, but I believe it does not have any > > connection to the GPL'ed Linux version, other than for some comments where > > they have obviously compared what the code does (but that is allowed). > > > >

Re: Microsoft DFS and the CIFS VFS

2002-05-30 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Urban Widmark wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2002, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > > > That makes sense. Currently we ship with something under GPL in our kernel > > so I think this has already been taken care of. We do not charge for our > > sources and they are all readily availa

Re: Microsoft DFS and the CIFS VFS

2002-05-30 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
> There is a smbfs implementation in BSD, but I believe it does not have any > connection to the GPL'ed Linux version, other than for some comments where > they have obviously compared what the code does (but that is allowed). > > I think it was made for one BSD variant first and that it has been

Re: Microsoft DFS and the CIFS VFS

2002-05-30 Thread Urban Widmark
On Thu, 30 May 2002, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > That makes sense. Currently we ship with something under GPL in our kernel > so I think this has already been taken care of. We do not charge for our > sources and they are all readily available. smbfs is distributed with > FreeBSD and I belie

Re: Microsoft DFS and the CIFS VFS

2002-05-30 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
> On Thu, 30 May 2002, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > > > The FreeBSD kernel wouldn't be distributed with this module. It would be in > > the ports system and compiled/added at a later time. > > Yes, but someone who was distributing the package with their kernel and > propietary product would have

Re: Microsoft DFS and the CIFS VFS

2002-05-30 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Thu, 30 May 2002, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > The FreeBSD kernel wouldn't be distributed with this module. It would be in > the ports system and compiled/added at a later time. Yes, but someone who was distributing the package with their kernel and propietary product would have to release

Re: Microsoft DFS and the CIFS VFS

2002-05-30 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
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Re: Microsoft DFS and the CIFS VFS

2002-05-30 Thread Simo Sorce
On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 22:33, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > 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 wil

Re: Microsoft DFS and the CIFS VFS

2002-05-29 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
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 G