Subject: Re: macfs & such
To: The Great Mr. Kurtz [David A. Gatwood] <davagatw@mars.utm.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/05/1997 17:12:52
> 
> On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> > Unfortunately neither one of them will ever make it into the kernel.
> > Both of them have restrictions which dissagree with the NetBSD
> > idea of "open" software. hfs_fs (the Linux one) is GPL'd, and will
> > stay that way (mainly because of the evil empire in Seattle).
> 
> 's okay.  It's an lkm (or equivalent term) under MkLinux, too.  :-)

klm. The difference is that hfs_fs can eventually become part of the
kernel. Well, part of a distributable kernel. As it's GPL'd, it can't
make it into a NetBSD distributable kernel.

But does macfs work for you? Anyone?

Take care,

Bill