On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 00:09 -0400, Kris Van Hees wrote: [...] > > I highly doubt that the OpenAFS kernel module will ever make it into the Linux > kernel, given that OpenAFS is governed under the IBM Public License v1.0, and > that is to my knowledge not compatible with the GPL. Also, I do not think > that
I wasn't aware that the IBM Public License wasn't GPL-compatible. Oh well. > there really is any interest to try to get the OpenAFS kernel module into the > Linux kernel, given that it is part of the entire OpenAFS software > distribution > and taking out the kernel module and merging it into the Linux source tree > seems rather pointless. > Not at all; plenty of filesystem drivers (network or otherwise) are handled like that. > If OpenAFS not being part of the kernel is seen as a reason for not viewing > OpenAFS as a distributed filesystem option, people with that view may actually > count themselves lucky. I don't think they're ready for something like AFS > (or probably any kind of software that operates on a sufficiently low level > without actually being part of the kernel). > It's a perceived stability thing; things that are not included with the kernel are viewed as unstable/experimental. Someone whose primary platform is Linux is going to look at the filesystems included with it, first. However, since the license isn't suited for inclusion, no sense discussing it further.. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
