[Xen-devel] Re: Licensing conflict with OpenAFS kernel module

[Sidney Cammeresi <sac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 at 10.27.42 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Sidney Cammeresi wrote:
> >I recently upgraded two Xen domU instances from 2.6.12.6 to 2.6.16.
> >Because I am running the OpenAFS client on each of them, I took the
> >opportunity to upgrade that (from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1) which required building
> >a new kernel module.  (The AFS client is partly in userspace and partly
> >in the kernel.)
> >
> >Loading the new module failed:
> >
> >             openafs: Unknown symbol force_evtchn_callback
> >             openafs: Unknown symbol xen_features
> 
> I think you should urge OpenAFS to relicense their module under the GPL.

Well this is not their decision given that the code came from IBM in
the first place.

I note, however, your ibm.com e-mail address.  Do you perhaps know the
channels in IBM to go through to discuss IBM relicensing their code under
the GPL?

-- 
Sidney CAMMERESI
http://www.cheesecake.org/sac/

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