On 07/04/11 15:51, Daniel Testa wrote:
Hi, I'd like to start working on the openbsd kernel. I thought about
adding JFS (http://jfs.sourceforge.net/) to it.
Do you know if there's anyone already working on this? I cannot access
the bug tracking system (seems to be down)
It seems that the JFS maintenance is being carried out in kernel.org
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it is ok to port this kind of source code or a reimplementation is preferred?
Thanks.
Regards.
Daniel.
It will never go into the tree. GPL'd code is OK for ports, but not
OpenBSD itself.
--STeve Andre'
