FreeLists / haiku-development / [haiku-development] Re: BeServed donated!

[Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>]

Axel Dörfler wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I recently got a mail from Kevin Musick, the author of BeServed (ie. 
> Teldar Corporation, www.teldar.com), that he would like to donate 
> BeServed and its companion tools (like its Windows server) under the MIT 
> license. I already retrieved most sources from him (the Unix server code 
> is still missing, everything else is there).
> 
> Now the question is what we do with it exactly.
> 
> We already have a more or less complete network file system written by 
> Ingo. Since we probably need to rework that one anyway when porting it to 
> Haiku, it might be a good idea to have a look at BeServed, and see if we 
> can reuse the best parts of both file systems, whereever feasible.
> For now, I would commit the sources into our repository unchanged (under 
> src/tests/add-ons/kernel/file_systems), so that we have them available 
> for inspection.

Sounds very reasonable! The more file system, the merrier... :-)

Best regards,
-Stephan