Filesysbox, a FUSE compatible filesystem layer for MorphOS

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Good that most/all the fuse filesystems are open source so you can benefit from them. An interesting project, but why not open source the amiga library too?

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Now, Fuse itself is part GPL and part LGPL, I'm not sure which part the amiga library of Filesysbox would be modeled after. I'm not sure how "clean" he did his implementation. If it's only hium, someone could perhaps harass him about licensing. If there's a spec doc or someone else created one, and he did not need to look at (L)GPL code at all, then he should have no licensing problems from anyone.

I'm not saying that there is a license issue though. it's just that without all the free and open source fuse filesystems, there wouldn't have been much point in making the amiga implementation. it would just seem in good spirit to license the code in a similar fashion. It just seems that Amiga software just "takes" from the open source world, and never gives back.

Not a legal issue, just something I seem to observe a lot with amiga software in general, and I think it is a shame. If this was open for example, then AROS or amigaos4 could benefit from it.

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Clearly they are users not programmers. (an insight into the term "user")

well, not true, I am a developer (although I don't think you have to be to have an opinion on this, or for it to be more or less valid), and obviously an open source advocate too, but even the earlier poster said it would be nice to have it on amigaos4. well, being open would enable the os4 devs to do so. there is far too much in the way of each camp doing their own thing, working over the same code, rather than sharing their efforts for the better.

the fuse filesystem coders (I run a variety of open fuse filesystems, including sshfs, ntfs3g and mhddfs) spent time and energy on their code too, and decided to make it so it could be used by lots of people. They maybe never thought it could be used on amiga, but they licensed the code in a way it could. Why can't amiga developers do the same, so all "flavours" of amiga users can use the code. The only thing I can think of, is the fact there is this "we have it you don't and we don't want you to have it as you didn't buy into our platform" mentality between amiga users, which is the kind of thinking that advances nothing.

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But you seem to want every Amiga-related thing to be open-sourced so that every Amiga-related thing runs on every Amiga-alike OS, regardless of origin of said Amiga-related thing. That no one should be allowed to make a closed-source Amiga-related thing, and choose not have it available on all Amiga-alike OSes. I disagree with that.

It's nice to see people releasing things as open-source, even when it's completely their own invention and not a port. It's nice to see people making stuff for more than one single Amiga-alike OS. But I don't believe that either should be any kind of requirement do make any Amiga-related thing.

Not really, but whats the point with such a small user base repeating the same work all the time and sharing nothing. It's not that they should be obligated, it's that its just a sensible thing to do, and it seems to be the norm that stuff is closed, which is really strange, when there are bugger all devs left on the platforms anyway.

Fred Fish had it right.. and we still benefit from the work he did.