Re: AFS and BFS removed. Unacceptable license.

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 29.10.2011 17:22, Dee Sharpe wrote:
> Ok, so I'd assume that the AFS driver needs to be rewritten. Is it absolutely 
> mandatory that copyright be assigned to the FSF?
>
They need to be rewritten. Assignment can be discussed. I've already
done a part of BFS (using "practical file system design" book as a
reference) and since AFS is similar it can use same file with some
defines. So it should
Actually if you want to help what I need the most is the way of mkfs and
write to AFS (or as a variant something which already generates AFS with
files on it like xorriso can do for iso9660) for automated testing purposes.
It has to run on my testing system (Debian GNU/Linux)
> A. Demetrious Sharpe
>
> It's not a question of why I'm better than you,
> it's a question of why you're not as good as me.
> The fact that you fail to see the difference between the two, answers both 
> questions!
>
> Sent from my iPhone4
>
> On Oct 29, 2011, at 4:37 AM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' 
> Serbinenko<address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> An unfortunate discovery has been done: our AFS code is based on
>> fsys_afs.c and afs.h from Syllable GRUB Legacy. The files in question
>> are not under FSF copyright, not licence-compatible and it wasn't
>> announced what's the code based on when the patch was sent or committed.
>> While first one is a minor issue I could grant exception for, the 2
>> other ones are fatal. I remind to all of you that a license-incompatible
>> can put the whole project in jeopardy and the need of both announcing
>> where code came from (refer to your copyright assignment if you have
>> one) and proper acknowledgement and traceability. The later is very
>> important if the code can come from several possible sources. In this
>> case if the code has been based on Haiku's BFS it would have been fine,
>> unfortunately it wasn't, without proper traceability it's hard to
>> differentiate between such cases.
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards
>> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
>>
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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