Re: Re: OpenSS7 GPL'd LiS.

At 04:35 PM 4/12/2005, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:
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>Please do not include our strxnet package, our inet driver or
>our working timod/tirdwr modules.  They are (and have always
>been) GPL code.  There has always been a confusion since it was
>inluded in LiS, as some companies have been using it believing
>that it is under the terms of the LGPL when it is not.

Mere aggregation is not a violation of the license.  Ragnar can include 
this stuff if he wants to.  I gave up on it due to build problems on 
various platforms that would cause LiS not to install just because strxnet 
would fail to compile.


>It would probably be a good idea to remove cdi, dlpi, npi, tpi
>and xti header files as nothing else uses them and they conflict
>with release packages.

This is just the kind of thing that the Linux kernel guys did.  They 
removed kernel exported symbols, thus deleting functions from the kernel 
DKI, just because no driver in the kernel source tree used the symbols.

Do what you like, but there are drivers out there that use those header 
files.  They just happen not to be included in the LiS source.

-- Dave