On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Gilles Chehade <gil...@poolp.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 01:10:48PM +0100, Jonathan Armani wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 03:24:06PM +0100, Sylvestre Gallon wrote: > > > > > I am not quite sure but I think that only libfuse and sshfs are GPL > > > licenced. The patches for those two items are only present in ports. > > > > > > All the code present in src is ISC licenced. The kernel communicate > with > > > libfuse througth a device (ie /dev/fuse) and only share a header with > the > > > libfuse (fuse_kernel.h) which is BSD licenced. FreeBSD used the same > way to > > > implement it. (I do not know if it is a good example) > > > > > > > Hi Sylvestre, > > > > Nice to see that someone is working on this. > > > > I think the problem here is that the kernel will provide a service that > only > > ports can use. If we want to use it in the basesystem, we will have to > > rewrite a BSD licenced libfuse. > > > > Quite frankly, if there's work in that area and hope that it does not go > to waste, I will happily volunteer to work on that. > .... Which is why I keep pointing people at puffs and librefuse in netbsd.... > > -- > Gilles Chehade > > https://www.poolp.org @poolpOrg > >
