Subject: Re: MkLinux DR2.1 update 5
To: David A. Gatwood <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/24/1997 21:32:39
> Any idea who originally wrote linux's hfsfs? What is (are) the opinion(s)
> of the author(s) with regard to NetBSD-mac68k? According to the GPL...
>
> 10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free
> programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author
> to ask for permission.
>
> (additional info about when FSF grants permission snipped)
>
> Paul Hargrove maintains it, and may have written it. I'm not sure.
> There's even a mailing list, hfs-interest@ccs.neu.edu, for ppl interested
> in hfsfs. Has anyone had any luck convincing Mr. Hargrove to give
> permission for redistribution under different conditions?
Paul (Hargrove) wrote it. As he received significant assistance from a
commercial software group and promised to keep his work GPL'd in
return, he doesn't want to break his promise. hfsfs stays GPL'd. I
can't blame him. :-) He'd be more than happy to help a NetBSD
port, though (to the extent a Linux programmer can; mostly just
maintaining it, I bet).
I though hfs_interest was a general HFS-under-UNIX list. ??
Take care,
Bill