Hello,

Helmut Grohne, le ven. 20 sept. 2024 08:01:35 +0200, a ecrit:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:42:57AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Kalle Olavi Niemitalo, on Mon 19 Sep 2016 01:29:17 +0300, wrote:
> > > Until that is implemented, the partition-table support in
> > > libstore could be disabled altogether, because GNU Mach currently
> > > provides a named device for each partition.
> > 
> > But the installer does not use it, for flexibility.
> > 
> > But storeio can be used as an intermediate between the two.
> > 
> > But what is actually linked against libparted is libstoreio, which is
> > shared between storeio and ext2fs. So we'd need two different
> > libstoreio, one with parted support, the other without.
> 
> Given that about eight years have passed, would either of you be kind
> enough to check whether there still is a license incompatibility?

It is still there, yes.

> If not, it feels unlikely that this will resolve itself soon.

It's a matter of somebody taking up the task. That could happen within
like a week if somebody works on it.

> Would it make sense to move hurd into the contrib section as a means
> of acknowledging the license problem?

That would make things very complex for us, bringing way more work to
make that working than just working on the actual issue.

> Do you see another way of making forward progress here?

Getting somebody to pick up the task.

Samuel

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