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From: jtk@atria.com (John Kohl)
Subject: Re: afs
In-Reply-To: budzyn@cps.msu.edu's message of 7 Oct 1994 14:35:47 GMT
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>>>>> "Joe" == Joseph D Budzyn <budzyn@cps.msu.edu> writes:
In article <373mc3$1966@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> budzyn@cps.msu.edu (Joseph D Budzyn) writes:


Joe>   Has anyone heard anything about MIT's port of AFS to NetBSD or FreeBSD?

Yep.  I did the port to NetBSD.  It probably won't easily fit into
FreeBSD 1.1.x, since the VFS interface in NetBSD-1.0_BETA is 4.4BSD-Lite
based and it's substantially different from the BNR-2 VFS.

However, MIT can't just give the port it away, since most of the code is
still Transarc's.  So the MIT licensing folks are negotiating with
Transarc in an attempt to get permission to redistribute binaries to
other AFS binary licensees and source diffs to other AFS source
licensees.  I'm not involved in those negotiations, so I don't know
where they stand.  [Both the NetBSD port and the Linux port are in the
same boat redistribution-wise]
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John Kohl <jtk@atria.com> or <jtkohl@mit.edu>
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