cache_lookup() work this week.
    Josh Elsasser 
    jre at vineyard.net
       
    Mon Sep  8 10:57:56 PDT 2003
    
    
  
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:45:24AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
> :>     GPL'd filesystems.  The only requirement is that the source be clearly
> :>     marked and arranged, which is why we have the gnu/ and a contrib/
> :>     directories, and we could certainly add additional dirs like gpl/
> :>     if it made sense to do so.
> :
> :With a GPL'd filesystem you couldn't have that as the default FS for the
> :system. 
> :
> :-DR
> 
>     Why not?
My understanding is that you can't distribute a kernel binary with
GPL'd code statically linked into it without GPLing the whole kernel.
I think this is why EXT2FS, COMPAT_LINUX, and pcm aren't in FreeBSD's
GENERIC kernel.
 -jre
    
    
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