[haiku-development] Re: [gsoc2011] New File System

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:25:59 +0200

On 2011-03-30 at 12:59:10 [+0200], Adrien Destugues 
<pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Le 30/03/2011 10:46, Ankur Sethi a écrit :
> > BTW, I thought Haiku as an organization was not too keen on having GPL
> > code in the default builds? What makes btrfs okay as a possible future
> > filesystem?
> In the default builds it's ok, but an MIT-Licenced Haiku should still be
> self-contained (and bootable).

There is no MIT license only Haiku. If we removed all non-MIT software, it 
wouldn't boot anymore. Even removing just the GPL software (bash, GNU 
utils,...) would do the trick.

> Having support for a GPL filesystem is fine, requiring to boot from it
> is not.

*shrug*

CU, Ingo

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