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Re: AFS and BFS removed. Unacceptable license.


From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Subject: Re: AFS and BFS removed. Unacceptable license.
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:12:57 +0100
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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?
>
I rewrote both BFS and AFS (which is a minor modification to the
former). Can you give me the tools (mkfs + a way to write to AFS)
necessarily to automatically test it for regressions in future?
> Sent from my iPhone4
Please avoid posting such advertisements here.
> 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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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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