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Re: ping



On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 11:51:27AM -0500, Pisupati, Ajay wrote:
> 
> Ethan,
> 	Sorry for not getting in touch for so long (I wasn't kidnapped by
> aliens like poor andy!).  I have been going through the kernel VFS code a
> little bit and I know how to approach some of the issues like keeping track
> of open files, path walking etc.  For the most part, I was thinking that
> what you wanted to achieve was like a subset of the kernel.  so, the
> construction can be quite similar, albeit much more condensed.  Many of the
> structures that I was going to use(and some functions) would be based on the
> kernel's.  However, this would mean that whatever license you choose for
> this project has to be GPL compatible.  It's probably premature because not

the licence is GPLv2 or later version, which is incompatible with the
linux kernel's GPLv2 only.

> one line of code has been written yet, but I wanted to get a confirmation
> from you that it will be so.  I know it's your project, so you have the
> final say.  
> Please let me know.

Arcady (seen in #debianppc) has done quite a bit of work on this
already, i haven't seen where he is at yet though, perhaps you would
want to check with him.  he has recently been too busy with university
stuff to complete the last bits.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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