Re: FreeBSD's embedded agenda

On Fri, 2006-May-26 00:04:46 -0400, Ben Kelly wrote:
>Jim Thompson wrote:
>>The real issue with porting JFFS2 is that its covered by the GPL, and 
>>putting GPL code in the FreeBSD kernel is typically considered a 'no-no'.
>
>Couldn't this be handled in the same way as the ext2 and reiserfs file 
>systems?

The viral aspects of the GPL is a far bigger issue for embedded devices
than a desktop workstation.  Your embedded widget won't need/have the
userland GPL tools, ext2 or ReiserFS but can't survive without a FS
of some sort.

-- 
Peter Jeremy