sources needed - msdosfs merge from darwin

David Schultz das at FreeBSD.ORG
Mon Feb 9 21:47:46 PST 2004


On Thu, Feb 05, 2004, Friedemann Becker wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to take a look at the darwin msdosfs - merge is on the todo list.
> I had trouble logging in to the cvs and wrote a mail to the
> apple-support. I got an auto-answer containing:
> 
> >Q:  I've registered, but I can't login to CVS or the web site.  What's 
> >wrong?
> >A:  We are currently experiencing intermittent failures during the login
> >process.  We are working to resolve this as quickly as possible.  Please
> >keep trying and we apologize for the inconvenience.
> 
> So my question is,  has someone a copy of the msdosfs part of the darwin
> kernel, so i could use it while waiting for the cvs to come up again...
> 
> And: has anyone begun to import the sources in question already? please
> drop a short note, so i know what is already done.

You can try the sources on opendarwin.org.  However, it is my
understanding that using Apple's msdosfs improvements presents
licensing problems due to the viral nature of the APSL.


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