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

[Sergey Babkin]

>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.

-SB

>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