[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [Xen-devel] Re: Licensing conflict with OpenAFS kernel module
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 at 10.38.45 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Sidney Cammeresi wrote: > >On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 at 10.27.42 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >>Sidney Cammeresi wrote: > >>>I recently upgraded two Xen domU instances from 2.6.12.6 to 2.6.16. > >>>Because I am running the OpenAFS client on each of them, I took the > >>>opportunity to upgrade that (from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1) which required building > >>>a new kernel module. (The AFS client is partly in userspace and partly > >>>in the kernel.) > >>> > >>>Loading the new module failed: > >>> > >>> openafs: Unknown symbol force_evtchn_callback > >>> openafs: Unknown symbol xen_features > >>> > >>I think you should urge OpenAFS to relicense their module under the GPL. > > > >Well this is not their decision given that the code came from IBM in > >the first place. > > > >I note, however, your ibm.com e-mail address. Do you perhaps know the > >channels in IBM to go through to discuss IBM relicensing their code under > >the GPL? > > I'd suggest bringing this up within the OpenAFS community. If they are > making direct use of Xen-specific functions, then they can potentially > find a work around. > > If we've made it so that a non-GPL symbol depends on one of our GPL'd > symbols, then that may be a problem on our part. I don't know whether > this is an acceptable thing to do. Sounds like an issue that needs to > be discussed on LKML. These functions do not appear in the OpenAFS source code, so the latter possibility seems more likely. I made some cursory examinations of the source trees, but not knowing a lot about either, I didn't find anything. If there's something I can do to help (like sending over my compiled kernel module), let me know. -- Sidney CAMMERESI http://www.cheesecake.org/sac/ _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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