On 9/1/20 12:56 am, Ian Darwin wrote: >> - If we could clean-room implement a BSD-licensed >> EXT3/EXT4/BTRFS/XFS/JFS/whatever, following style(8), would there be >> interest in supporting that in OpenBSD? > > And which "we" are you referring to here? Did you mean yourself, > or are you hoping that "somebody" will do it?
I'm hoping it will be more than one person assisting in this, and yes, I include myself in that group. Can't commit to doing anything right away, but it'll be slotted somewhere in the back-log. >… >> ZFS and BTRFS are much newer, and more complicated with software RAID >> functionality built in. I think these would be harder to implement from >> scratch. > > Persuade the owners to release under an ISC license. Then send a diff. > Yeah, I think there's been discussions about changing the license (to GPL for Linux kernel use) and those came to a dead end. I don't see the copyright holders being receptive to ISC either. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
