On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, The Great Mr. Kurtz [David A. Gatwood] wrote:

> > (FreeBSD has a port of the ext2fs fs now. It should make a nice lkm, or,
> > for development work, you could compile it in. You just couldn't
> > distribute that kernel)
> 
> I'll have to look into that.  That would probably save a lot of pounding
> on the Linux code.  :-)

The terms of the GNU General Public License (under which Linux is
released) prevent Linux code from being used in {Net,Free,Open}BSD, and
vice versa - at least not without tracking down the code's original author
and getting permission to re-license their code under different terms.  So
if you want an ext2fs implementation, you wouldn't be able to use the one
in Linux.  (Yeah, that sucks, I should know...)


> Speaking of the powerpc port... is that... mature yet?  Does it run on
> 7600's?  If so, I may not bother with MkLinux (I've always found the
> NetBSD look-and-feel to be more pleasant somehow).

Are you aware of the port of monolithic-kernel Linux to the PCI Power
Macs?  Sure, it's Linux [insert obligatory pro-BSD religious propaganda 
here], but it's out there if you're interested:

	http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~mysen/linux/

							Rob

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