A while back set out to port some HFS code to FreeBSD.  I didn't really
know what I was doing, but I got to the point where I could do an 'ls' on 
an HFS formatted floppy.

I think this may be the same code you are talking about, but just in case,
I'll list the link:

ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/user/pdinda/MacFS_0.1.tar.gz

Has anyone asked the author to give the code to NetBSD under a different
(better) license?

Tim


On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Dan Winship wrote:
> 
> > > The problem is that both filesystems which read HFS files (and AFAIK the
> > > only HFS+ one) are under licenses which can't get in the tree.
> > 
> > Wasn't there an hfs written for NetBSD/mac68k that just never got
> > beyond the "really flaky" stage?
> 
> Yes, and I worked on it, and there's a reason I didn't mention it. :-)
> 
> Paul Goyette and I worked on porting macfs to NetBSD. It was an
> hfs-reading fs written for mach. We got it to where it would work, but we
> were doing something wrong with not clearing out vnodes. It worked in
> single user, but died in multi-user.
> 
> The problem is that due to licensing restrictions, its as unacceptable in
> the kernel as GPL. It wants a message printed at boot, and also it
> prohibits use by the military. Irrigardless of what you think of the
> military, that's not an acceptable license.
> 
> Also, macfs never claimed to be able to write. hfsfs and Aplpe's hfs
> should be able to write safely. :-)
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Bill
>