Re: [openstack-dev] [All] Cross project prorietary driver code recap

2016-11-01 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2016-11-01 14:10:44 -0400 (-0400), Ben Swartzlander wrote: > On 11/01/2016 12:03 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote: [...] > > into it the kernel's process space. This is the closest analogue we > > have to our drivers importing proprietary Python modules. > > I'm not talking about python code here. I'm

Re: [openstack-dev] [All] Cross project prorietary driver code recap

2016-11-01 Thread Ben Swartzlander
On 11/01/2016 12:03 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote: On 2016-11-01 00:26:11 -0400 (-0400), Ben Swartzlander wrote: [...] As usual I'd like to point to the Linux project as a good example for how to handle such things. Linux is older than us and has been dealing with drivers and proprietary code for a

Re: [openstack-dev] [All] Cross project prorietary driver code recap

2016-11-01 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2016-11-01 12:29:27 -0500 (-0500), Sean McGinnis wrote: [...] > Is importing proprietary libs really a legal issue? If it happens at > runtime based on how the user configured the system, and they have > whatever licensing rights _they_ need to use that library/CLI, I > don't see an issue with

Re: [openstack-dev] [All] Cross project prorietary driver code recap

2016-11-01 Thread Sean McGinnis
On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 03:47:11PM +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2016-10-31 13:23:48 -0500 (-0500), Sean McGinnis wrote: > > Last Tuesday we had a cross-project session around the use of > > proprietary code/libs/binaries in OpenStack drivers. The challenge > > we are running into is where to

Re: [openstack-dev] [All] Cross project prorietary driver code recap

2016-11-01 Thread Sean McGinnis
On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 12:26:11AM -0400, Ben Swartzlander wrote: > On 10/31/2016 02:23 PM, Sean McGinnis wrote: > >Last Tuesday we had a cross-project session around the use of proprietary > >code/libs/binaries in OpenStack drivers. The challenge we are running into > >is where to draw the line

Re: [openstack-dev] [All] Cross project prorietary driver code recap

2016-11-01 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2016-11-01 00:26:11 -0400 (-0400), Ben Swartzlander wrote: [...] > As usual I'd like to point to the Linux project as a good example > for how to handle such things. Linux is older than us and has been > dealing with drivers and proprietary code for a very long time. > > Linux does a few

Re: [openstack-dev] [All] Cross project prorietary driver code recap

2016-11-01 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2016-10-31 13:23:48 -0500 (-0500), Sean McGinnis wrote: > Last Tuesday we had a cross-project session around the use of > proprietary code/libs/binaries in OpenStack drivers. The challenge > we are running into is where to draw the line with these drivers. > What is the appropriate policy to

Re: [openstack-dev] [All] Cross project prorietary driver code recap

2016-10-31 Thread Ben Swartzlander
On 10/31/2016 02:23 PM, Sean McGinnis wrote: Last Tuesday we had a cross-project session around the use of proprietary code/libs/binaries in OpenStack drivers. The challenge we are running into is where to draw the line with these drivers. What is the appropriate policy to have in place to