Jordan, can you please comment? Re: [off-topic] NTFS, Apple and GPL vs L

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Mon Feb 27 09:02:04 PST 2006


Am Mon, 27 Feb 2006 06:42:30 -0600 (CST)
schrieb Sergey Babkin <babkin at verizon.net>:

> >From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh at brierdr.com>
> 
> >I think it's fair to say that Apple is always interested in BSD  
> >licensed alternatives to any GPL'd code it may be or is considering  
> >using and, for appropriate projects, is also interested in figuring  
> >out how to support them.  What did you guys have in mind?
> 
> Nothing in particular as of now, as there is no tangible code 
> yet. But I'm looking at the idea of adding write NTFS support.
> So far I'm just reading whatever docs I can find.
> Linux-ntfs project has some docs which I suppose are
> fair to use.

There are also people which would be happy to be able to read files
from a NTFS partition which are larger than 4GB... I'm not one of them.

Bye,
Alexander.

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