Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754765Ab2KHBCK (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2012 20:02:10 -0500 Received: from mail-vc0-f174.google.com ([209.85.220.174]:48474 "EHLO mail-vc0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754715Ab2KHBCI (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2012 20:02:08 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <509A915B.30105@redhat.com> References: <509A915B.30105@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 18:02:07 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: scsi target, likely GPL violation From: Jon Mason To: Andy Grover Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" , target-devel , linux-scsi , linux-kernel , Marc Fleischmann , Nicholas Bellinger Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1809 Lines: 44 On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Andy Grover wrote: > Nick, > > Your company appears to be shipping kernel features in RTS OS that are > not made available under the GPL, specifically support for the > EXTENDED_COPY and COMPARE_AND_WRITE SCSI commands, in order to claim > full Vmware vSphere 5 VAAI support. > > http://www.risingtidesystems.com/storage.html > http://www.linux-iscsi.org/wiki/VAAI > > Private emails to you and RTS CEO Marc Fleischmann have not elicited a > useful response. > > You are subsystem maintainer for the in-kernel SCSI target support > (drivers/target/*), and your company appears to be violating the GPL. The peanut gallery needs more information, as this is quite an incendiary claim to be making on a Linux kernel forum. How are they violating the GPL? I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV, but if I understand the GPL correctly, RTS only needs to provide the relevant source to their customers upon request. Are there customers (perhaps Redhat) that they have not provided this to? If so, then they need to be publicly shamed (gpl-violations.org would be a good place to go as well). If not, then they are within their rights to behave the way they are currently behaving. Again, we need more info before we start flinging the tomatoes at them. Thanks, Jon > Please explain. > > Regards -- Andy > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/