On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Colin Wood wrote:

> David A. Gatwood wrote:
> > On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Colin Wood wrote:
> > 
> > > Justin R. Smith wrote:
> > > > 1. How does one access ordinary Macintosh files?  I noticed a command
> > > > mount_dos. Is there a corresponding operation for Macintosh files?
> > > 
> > > Not yet.  Everyone who has done work on Unix-based HFS support seems to
> > > have put it under the GPL, as a result, we don't have anything like that
> > > in the kernel.  However, there is an excellent set of utilities you can
> > > download and compile for this purpose, called the hfsutils.  I don't seem
> > > to have a copy of the URL at the moment, but I guess I should find it and
> > > add it to the FAQ....
> > 
> > There's an old one on puma, tho there are probably many newer versions.
> > 
> > Any chance of HFS support in an lkm?  I believe somebody said that would
> > get around the GPL issues.

How did Apple get around the GPL issues?  The Mach kernel sources appear
to contain HFS support, and that's a BSD-like copyright... they appear in
a separate directory buried deep within...

...source_base.../DR2.1update*/osfmk/src/file_systems/POWERMAC/COPYLEFT/hfs


David

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