On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, David A. Gatwood wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Colin Wood wrote:
> 
> > > 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

My guess is that the file system is going into the Linux kernel, not the
microkernel (please correct me if I'm wrong). If so, there's no big deal
as the Linux kernel's GPL'd.

Take care,

Bill