[fab] discussion topics for red hat ceo

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon May 22 15:37:11 UTC 2006


Rahul Sundaram (sundaram at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 11:55 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Mark Webbink (mwebbink at redhat.com) said: 
> > > Unless it is already in the kernel, no, it doesn't count.  Now, if we
> > > able to push it into the upstream kernel, it would eventually be covered.
> > 
> > It is (and has been) in the upstream kernel. We just don't build it.
> 
> So, does the OIN argument apply to the upstream kernel. If so, whats
> preventing Fedora from shipping ntfs?

It's not as simple as "it's in OIN". For example, if libmad was in OIN
(it's not) it would still be foolish to ship it...

Bill




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