Re: [sleuthkit-developers] JFFS2 Support

[David C. <dav...@gm...>]

Hi,

Actually, most of Sleuthkit is under the IBM Public License, NOT the GPL.
'mactime' is under the GPL, but (akaif) it is a separate tool, not
linked to sk directly.

I do not know enough about licences to know if you can copy GPL'd code
and link it to the IBM licensed code.
This page suggests perhaps not (though it doesnt really explain why):
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/

I'd suggest that the FSF would be happy help you out, let us all know
what you find.

Alternatively, Brian may be able to approach the other authors and
re-licence Sleuthkit under the GPL (something I'd like to see).

Dave

On Jan 10, 2008 6:37 PM, Jim Halfpenny <jim...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
> Both Linux and TSK are relased under the GNU Public License, so I can see no
> reason why you cannot look at or simply copy jff2.h into the TSK source
> tree. It would then cease to be an external dependancy. There's no sense in
> reinventing the wheel when you can enjoy the benefits of free software.
>
> Regards,
> Jim
>
>
>
>
> On 10/01/2008, Jeff Craig <li...@fo...> wrote:
> > I'm looking at writing JFFS2[1] support into TSK, as I have a pair of
> > images I'm interested in analyzing.  My questions are of semantics for
> > the code.
> >
> > It appears that TSK actively tries to avoid external dependencies, for
> > instance, the ext2 support does not depend upon <linux/ext2.h>.
> > Understanding that I shouldn't include <linux/jffs2.h> in my source, how
> > appropriate is it examine that file in my creation of a jffs2.h file for
> > TSK?  As I tried to familiarize myself with the TSK file system code,
> > I've made a point of not looking into the jffs2.h file in the Linux
> > headers, but obviously using that code (even if it were copied along
> > with the copyright notice), would make my task easier.
> >
> > Jeff Craig
> >
> > [1] http://sourceware.org/jffs2/
> >
> >
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