Jordan, can you please comment? Re: [off-topic] NTFS, Apple and GPL vs LGPL (Was : NTFS write support)

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

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?

- Jordan

On Feb 26, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Sergey Babkin wrote:

> Gilbert Fernandes wrote:
>>
>> In November, Apple has again tried to hijack Linux-NTFS code, this  
>> time by
>> suggesting {http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php? 
>> msg_id=13769046}
>> that it be licensed under the LGPL. This was promptly rejected by  
>> one main
>> developer, who threatened lawsuits.
>>
>> ----8>----8>----8>----8>----8>----8>----8>
>>
>> It is thus highly probable that Apple would like to see a BSD-based
>> implementation of NTFS. They asked twice the GPL-based project to  
>> adopt a
>> dual-licence so they (Apple) would be able to integrate this into  
>> MacOS X.
>>
>> Perhaps Apple would agree to give some support for the BSD-licence  
>> based
>> work ?
>
> Hm, we should probably ask Jordan Hubbard to comment on this.
>
> -SB