On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 20:47 +0200, Dawid Gajownik wrote: > Dnia 10/22/2006 08:05 PM, Użytkownik Dave Jones napisał: > > If this works, there's no reason for a kernel module to do the same > > thing. > > Yes, there is at least one reason → > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65749#c30 This has been discussed in several Project Board meetings, including as recently as September: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2006-09-19 We do have to get Red Hat's legal department to revisit this issue, but the existence of OIN (which came after GDK's comment in the bug listed above) may make a crucial difference. At least some of the folks on the Board, maybe most, feel that since OIN has undertaken protection of the kernel, and the kernel includes an NTFS driver, that driver should be shipped enabled in the binary packages, and not merely included in source packages where users have to build it manually. Make no mistake that it *is* being shipped currently, and that any liability is likely not mitigated by the fact that it's only shipped with the kernel SRPM. Obviously, enabling this driver would open up some cool possibilities such as helping users migrate data. I was hoping we'd have this resolved for FC6 release, but 'twas not to be. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project Board: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board Fedora Docs Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject
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