[2273] in Kerberos
Re: Kerberized NFS in 4.4BSD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Thu Oct 8 15:29:10 1992
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 15:02:08 -0400
From: tytso@Athena.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: dyer@spdcc.com
Cc: kerberos@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Steve Dyer's message of 8 Oct 92 05:14:38 GMT,
Date: 8 Oct 92 05:14:38 GMT
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
>- The specification of the MIT mechanism is not public either. My
> understanding is that MIT logs all requests for the info. for Sun and that
> this suggests that Sun considers some of the provided code/info proprietary.
This comes as a surprise to me; Ted, comments? Aren't diffs available?
MIT does log all the people who askes for the MIT mechanism, but what is
distributed is context diffs to source code which can only be licensed
through Sun. So in effect, you do need a Sun NFS source license if you
want to use the context diffs directly.
On the other hand, it is certainly true that it wouldn't be that hard to
make the same changes to a public-domain Unix NFS implementation ---
say, the NFS implementation found in BSD 4.4, for example. To my
knowledge, no one has done it yet, but I can't imagine that it would be
difficult.
- Ted
