On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Austin English austinenglish@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:49 PM, James Mckenzie jjmckenzie51@earthlink.net wrote:
Kai Blin kai.blin@gmail.com wrote on April 7th:
Subject: Re: NTFS filesystem features -> WONTFIX?
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 04:21:37 Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
- Implement missing functionality - will most likely be nearly
impossible
without driver support for special features. Or have to be emulated by
Wine
(then why not for any other FS?)
We can probably get away with 80% of the apps only using 20% of the
features,
as usual. I guess that apps are mostly interested in ACLs, which could be mapped to POSIX acls, stored in file attributes or some database or
simply
faked. Samba does this, I don't see why we couldn't.
Can we use Samba code in Wine to make this a reality?
Samba is GPL3 licensed, so not without relicensing.
-- -Austin
There were older releases of Samba 3 that were not GPLv3 licensed, couldn't that code be used... Wait, I just realized, it would still have to be relicensed to LGPLv2.1, though they would probably have less inclination to do so for the GPLv3 releases over the GPLv2 ones.