On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Austin English <austinengl...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:49 PM, James Mckenzie > <jjmckenzi...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > Kai Blin <kai.b...@gmail.com> wrote on April 7th: > >>Subject: Re: NTFS filesystem features -> WONTFIX? > >> > >>On Tuesday 07 April 2009 04:21:37 Vitaliy Margolen wrote: > >> > >>> - Implement missing functionality - will most likely be nearly > impossible > >>> without driver support for special features. Or have to be emulated by > Wine > >>> (then why not for any other FS?) > >> > >>We can probably get away with 80% of the apps only using 20% of the > features, > >>as usual. I guess that apps are mostly interested in ACLs, which could be > >>mapped to POSIX acls, stored in file attributes or some database or > simply > >>faked. Samba does this, I don't see why we couldn't. > >> > > Can we use Samba code in Wine to make this a reality? > > Samba is GPL3 licensed, so not without relicensing. > > > -- > -Austin > > > There were older releases of Samba 3 that were not GPLv3 licensed, couldn't that code be used... Wait, I just realized, it would still have to be relicensed to LGPLv2.1, though they would probably have less inclination to do so for the GPLv3 releases over the GPLv2 ones.
