<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Austin English <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:austinenglish@gmail.com">austinenglish@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:49 PM, James Mckenzie<br>
<<a href="mailto:jjmckenzie51@earthlink.net">jjmckenzie51@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Kai Blin <<a href="mailto:kai.blin@gmail.com">kai.blin@gmail.com</a>> wrote on April 7th:<br>
>>Subject: Re: NTFS filesystem features -> WONTFIX?<br>
>><br>
>>On Tuesday 07 April 2009 04:21:37 Vitaliy Margolen wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> - Implement missing functionality - will most likely be nearly impossible<br>
>>> without driver support for special features. Or have to be emulated by Wine<br>
>>> (then why not for any other FS?)<br>
>><br>
>>We can probably get away with 80% of the apps only using 20% of the features,<br>
>>as usual. I guess that apps are mostly interested in ACLs, which could be<br>
>>mapped to POSIX acls, stored in file attributes or some database or simply<br>
>>faked. Samba does this, I don't see why we couldn't.<br>
>><br>
> Can we use Samba code in Wine to make this a reality?<br>
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</div></div>Samba is GPL3 licensed, so not without relicensing.<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br>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.<br>