-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Jeffrey Altman wrote: | Harald Barth wrote: |> |> Take the arla kernel module, call it kAFS and most of your tasks are |> allready done. Yes, the code is dual licensed. | | As far as I am aware Arla is not shipped as part of the Linux kernel and | although it does not have the same licensing issues as OpenAFS it is | broken by kernel revisions just as frequently as the OpenAFS module is.
Much less of Arla is in the kernel, and, also, potential for on-going Linux breakage seems necessarily less, as Arla's kernel component may freely use GPL-only symbols. Also, a lot of people probably like Arla's architecture. That could be relevant even if you disliked Arla. For example, I can imagine an OpenAFS cache manager with user-space components. I do not believe this would necessarily present a licensing problem (then again...). On a related note, lots of useful GPL-licensed kernel code can't seem to make it into Linux mainline. That theme recurs later in this thread, I think (PAGs). I wonder if this might present an on-going issue for kAFS? None of the above is meant as a critique of kAFS, just thinking aloud. Matt | Jeffrey Altman - -- Matt Benjamin The Linux Box 206 South Fifth Ave. Suite 150 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 http://linuxbox.com tel. 734-761-4689 fax. 734-769-8938 cel. 734-216-5309 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIDi+LJiSUUSaRdSURCK97AJ48IqG6YHpFg6AkIckgLV65quAgUwCgiPs3 5wD98KWMvI/YixM9IBpwT+Q= =1Iu7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
