code requirements / CVS server

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Mon Mar 28 08:17:05 PST 2005


On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 10:07:21AM -0600, John Sconiers wrote:
> A group of coders will be porting complete reiserfs functionality over
> to FreeBSD -current.  The work will most likely be based on the
> current read only project (http://dumbbell.nerim.net/index2.html)
> published by Jean Pedron.  I have two questions:
> 1.  What are the requirements for inclusion into the tree?  We would
> want the end result to be included if possible.  Maybe as a kernel
> module?

Clear copyrights on the source code, something maintainable, etc...
And since it will have GPL'ed bits, they cannot be required for a working
kernel, nor can the FS be in GENERIC.  A kernel module is fine.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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