Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:
Based on Brian's "grep" e-mail, it appears that he believes that
the GPL modules are not "mere aggregations" into the LiS
tarball.
Files that compile into the "Library" (whether optionally or not)
cannot be considered mere aggregation.
There are two drivers which use any of the 27 header files listed
in another e-mail. These are timod and tirdwr, written by Ole
Hsugaard. As I see it, they utilize LiS to provide a TLI
interface rather than being a part of LiS itself. As the
timod documentation states, "there is no TLI Provider code
within LiS". The fact that LiS compiles and runs without
these two drivers further indicates that to me.
But I am interested to hear if anyone in the LiS community has
a strong preference whether the TLI and LDL (provides a DLPI
interface) GPL modules should be included within future releases
of LiS. We have never used them within our products so removing
them would cause us no pain. But I would tend to leave them in
as a convenience to others who may.
In the mean time, Brian, if you believe that I should make the
above decision based on legal rather than LiS user wishes, have
your lawyer give me a call and convince me that our legal advice
is incorrect. Otherwise we will just have to agree to disagree.
Regards,
Steve
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