(Added back CCs) On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Fred . <eldmannen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Kevin Winchester > <kjwinchester@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:28 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 09:35:45AM -0300, Kevin Winchester wrote: >>>> If Fred declines, is anyone free to take you up on the offer? I have >>>> no filesystem experience and almost no experience with kernel code in >>>> general, so I would not be anyone's first choice for a task like this. >>>> However, since it mainly appears to be an integration exercise (using >>>> the code from GRUB and making it work in linux), it might well be >>>> doable for me. As a bonus, being highly inexperienced, I have no >>>> expectations of doing anything correctly, and thus would not react >>>> badly to lots of criticism. >>>> >>>> So to summarize - if anyone else would like to undertake this work, >>>> they probably should. But if no one has the time/will, then I would >>>> be happy to give it a try. >>> >>> Yes, this offer is of course up to everyone interested. But it's not >>> purely an integration effort in the traditional sense, the grub >>> filesystem interface is quite different from the Linux one, and the code >>> structure and style is quite different. But if you're willing to learn >>> it should be very interesting. >>> >> >> No one else seems to have volunteered, so I would certainly like to >> give it a try. I guess I need to get the ZFS grub code, create a ZFS >> filesystem, and start looking around for information on linux >> filesystem development and ZFS (obviously without looking at any CDDL >> licensed code). >> >> Once I get a handle on that, I'll see where I can get before I need to >> ask a thousand questions. >> > Code can be found here; > * http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/grub/grub-0.95/stage2/ > > But it may be covered by patents by Sun. So maybe not allowed make an > implementation. :( > Maybe you should consult SFLC (Software Freedom Law Center) first or something. > I would have no idea of the legal implications here. Do I really need to get the lawyers involved just to use GPLv2 code from another project in linux? -- Kevin Winchester -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
