-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > it's all open source. Also, I understand that RH has based it's > clustering solution on Kimberlite and they've already gotten it > up to where the MCLX Convolo product was. Don't know if they have > open sourced it or even released it. I do hope they open source it,
Legally, they have to. Kimberlite is GPL, and any product based on it must also be GPL. > since it was pretty good stuff for the Linux world. I'm hoping MCLX > will eventually open source the Convolo stuff too, since in the hands > of few open/free source hackers, it could go places :) I'd like to see this too, but I don't think it will happen. I'm curious if their patches to the NFS code in the kernel got kicked back to the kernel people, or at least were made available... I never bothered to check. Since technically they were derivatives of GPL code, and they were distributed to those who bought Convolo, they should have been made available. One of the sticking points here though, if I understand the GPL correctly, is that they only need to be made available to those who ask for the code. Just because you create a derivative work doesn't mean you're required to distribute it. It also does not mean you're required to distribute it to the public at large; you're only required to make it available to those to whom you've distributed the derivative work. So it's entirely possible they were not made available. Now, if someone had been given the code for those drivers, THEY could release them to the public, under the terms of the GPL... - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8rL8xdjdlQoHP510RApsUAKClDj53fnFR9RkfMoz1DrR4hGtbwgCdERcG SsfWoeJEYVsRrogVv0ET3HA= =168M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
